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This city was never meant to be found - Machu Picchu mystery

Hidden in the clouds of Peru, Machu Picchu stayed secret for over 400 years. No maps. No records. Not even the Spanish found ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

A century after rediscovery, Machu Picchu still dazzles

When the Spanish conquistadors showed up hungry for gold in the 1530s, there were fewer than 200 of them, but they had guns and horses and the luck to arrive during an Incan civil war. In short order, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Saving Machu Picchu

The site covers some 80,000 acres. UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1983. Dave Mason When Hiram Bingham, a young Yale professor, discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, he found a site overrun with ...
Mental Floss on MSN

13 Amazing Facts About Machu Picchu

Built high in the Peruvian Andes on the western edge of the Amazon Basin, the Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded ...
CNN

Machu Picchu is at risk of losing its ‘credibility’ as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World. What’s happening?

It was in 2007 when Peru’s Machu Picchu Inca sanctuary was designated one of the New 7 Wonders of the World after receiving more than 100 million votes in a global competition. Now, the New7Wonders ...
Los Angeles Times

Full Inca Burial Site Found at Machu Picchu

Peruvian archeologists have unearthed the first full Inca burial site at Machu Picchu since the famous mountaintop citadel was discovered 90 years ago, officials said. “It’s important because nothing ...
Time

Peru: The Lost City

Something hidden. Go and find it. go and look behind the ranges — some thing lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go! —Rudyard Kipling, The Explorer For archaeologists in Peru, that ...