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In the remote town of Huaytará, Peru, the building that houses the Church of San Juan Bautista is more than what it seems. It was built upon a three-walled Incan structure called a carpa uasi that exchanged stability for something unexpected.
While the Incan Empire is best known for the iconic 15th-century citadel of Machu Picchu, a team of researchers is investigating the acoustic properties of the carpa uasi, another one-of-a-kind Incan construction that likely dates back to the same…
