Inca Sundial Broken During Filming of Ad
From Times Wire Reports
A 1,000-pound crane being used to help film a beer commercial toppled over, damaging a stone sundial in Peru’s Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, officials said. The Intihuatana sundial is a granite block carved into the peak of the mountain where Machu Picchu lies, about 310 miles southeast of the capital, Lima. A jutting edge of the sundial was chipped off Friday when the crane fell. The commercial was being shot by U.S. ad agency J. Walter Thompson for Peruvian beer company Cervesur.
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