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The famous stone from an Inca wall in Cuzco, Peru. The stone has 12 angles and illustrates the great precision Inca masons employed in ensuring their stone blocks fitted so well together that no mortar was needed. (15th century CE).
This image was first published on Flickr.
Original image by Flickr User: Canopic. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 12 March 2014 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs. This licence only allows others to download this content and share it with others as long as the author is credited, but they can't change the content in any way or use it commercially. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
Canopic, F. U. (2014, March 12). Inca 12 Angle Stone. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/2373/
Canopic, Flickr U. "Inca 12 Angle Stone." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified March 12, 2014. https://www.ancient.eu/image/2373/.
Canopic, Flickr U. "Inca 12 Angle Stone." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 12 Mar 2014. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
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