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 ...
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 ...
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, ...