Machu Picchu is formed of buildings ... Yale University agreed to return to Peru some of the thousands of artifacts that Bingham removed to Yale to study during his years of exploration and ...

For starters, locals had known about Machu Picchu long before Bingham found his way there — so to call it “lost” was a bit of an exaggeration. Then, Bingham removed numerous artifacts and ...

Machu Picchu's visitor numbers grew quickly, as did its aura. It soon became Peru's largest driver of tourism. Movies were made, books were written. Artifacts were taken, then returned.

Llamas, ponchos, Machu Picchu and Paddington Bear ... the hotel hosts a cultural collection of more than 130 archeological artifacts from the Nazca civilization, as well as 2 million-year-old ...