Machu Picchu

This Peruvian city was discovered over 100 years ago, but archaeologists are still trying to solve the mystery of its purpose ...

In 1911, Hiram Bingham climbing a ridge with local guides unexpectedly discovered Machu Picchu

In 1911, Hiram Bingham, guided by local Peruvians, stumbled upon the magnificent ruins of Machu Picchu. This discovery ignited a global media sensation, popularizing a new era of archaeological ...
Digital Journal

Six tourists arrested after feces found in sacred Machu Picchu area

Six tourists, including a French woman, have been arrested over accusations that they damaged Peru’s cultural heritage by defecating in a sacred temple at the iconic Machu Picchu sanctuary. “The six ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...