Video argues that stoneworking knowledge spread without writing

October 22, 2025PeruTheoryShare

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Key facts

• Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco), near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, has precisely fitted stonework; no script used by its builders has been securely deciphered.
• The Inca used quipu but left no known conventional script. Ingapirca in Ecuador is an Inca complex roughly 2,000 km from Cusco, built during 15th-century expansion; no evidence establishes a specific decade for the transfer of construction knowledge.
• The video dates Georgia's Cyclopean walls to the 3rd millennium BCE and Georgian writing to the 4th century CE; the earliest securely dated Georgian inscriptions are from the 5th century CE.
• The Nuragic culture left disputed signs and possible inscriptions, but no generally accepted writing system, despite contact with Greek, Carthaginian and Roman societies.
• Linear A and Linear B are known chiefly from Aegean settlements and palaces; Linear A remains undeciphered, while Linear B is a deciphered early Greek script. Their findspots do not establish that Cyclopean wall builders could not read them.

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