Built by the Inca in a rugged, isolated, area of Peru, Machu Picchu was discovered by the scientific world when geographer Hiram Bingham reached it in 1911. (Though some local people knew of it ...

While Machu Picchu ... The Tairona people fled during colonial times, leaving the abandoned city hidden from the outside world (though it was still known to local Indigenous tribes) for centuries ...

Machu Picchu is the granddaddy of archeological sites. Set in the Andes Mountains, the site was once an estate for the Inca emperor, as well as a place of worship and education. When the Spanish ...