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This video explores how the Incas achieved such perfect stone fitting in their walls, defying modern engineering.
Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...
Roberto Román has always loved stone. Growing up in Ayacucho, Peru, he was surrounded by the region’s ancient quarries and ...
(THE CONVERSATION) The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a ...
Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are they nearly ubiquitous. That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock ...
She's one of the last remaining now. While the town's historical society does its best with the upkeep of the cemetery, the stone wall around it has been crumbling for over a decade.
How stone salls became prevalent in New England. Stroll through the woods of New England and you’re bound to come across long stretches of stone walls. The historic walls function as more than a ...
My introduction to building a stone wall, like beginnings in so many homesteading skills, came unexpectedly, urgently, and at the wrong time. It was a rare clear morning during a rainy spring in ...
A four-mile (7km) dry stone wall is being built to help a major new commuter road blend into its Cotswolds surroundings. Twelve stonemasons have already spent a year constructing the wall ...
A motorist was trapped in her vehicle Tuesday night after crashing through a stone wall and against a house in Haverford. Manoa and Oakmont fire companies were called to the 600 block of Ellis ...