One hundred years after it was discovered, some architectural treasures are still overlooked. On 24 July, 1911, Hiram Bingham III, a young history lecturer from Yale University, climbed a steep slope ...
On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins in Peru. The explorer chopped his way ...
Nestled atop a mountain ridge in Peru, the 15th-century Inca city of Machu Picchu had sat largely forgotten for centuries—until archaeologist Hiram Bingham began excavations of the ruins a hundred ...
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca site located on a ridge between the Huayna Picchu and Machu Picchu mountains in Peru. It sits at an elevation of 7,970 feet (2,430 meters) above sea level on the ...
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