On this day in history, I’m taking you back to July 24, 1911, when explorer Hiram Bingham discovered the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu. In this video, I share fascinating facts about the site’s odd ...
Introduction / Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar -- The discovery of Machu Picchu / Hiram Bingham III -- Machu Picchu : mysterious royal estate in the cloud forest / Lucy C. Salazar -- The nature ...
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 ...
This National Geographic Society Yale University Peruvian Expedition explored and excavated the ruins of Machu Picchu, which had been discovered during an expedition to Peru in 1911 by explorers ...
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 ...
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