Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu in Peru

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Science

Place

Peru

Date

1911

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"It is now considered most likely that it was actually the fifteenth-century country retreat of the Inca Pachacutec and may have been left to fall slowly into ruin after his death." [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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