Peru’s Machu Picchu — heralded as the “Lost City of the Incas” by American explorer Hiram Bingham, who rediscovered the largely forgotten site more than 100 years ago — has evolved into ...

Machu Picchu is sometimes incorrectly called "the lost city of the Incas." But archaeological evidence indicates that no more ...

An English Baptist missionary, Thomas Payne, who lived in Peru from 1903 to 1952, claimed to have not only found Machu Picchu first but also said he later told Bingham about the ruined city and ...

In 1964, adventurer Gene Savoy identified ruins and proved that Espiritu Pampa (in the Vilcabamba region of Peru, west of Machu Picchu) was the lost city that Bingham had originally sought.

Macchu Picchu: Machu Picchu is a world-famous archaeological site located in the Andes Mountains of Peru, South America. It is one of the most iconic and well-preserved ancient Inca cities and is ...

T hree decades ago, the Lost City of the Tayrona people, a Machu Picchu-sized pre-Colombian archaeological site set on a high rainforest-swathed ridge in Colombia’s wild Sierra Nevada mountains ...

Hiram Bingham thought that he had discovered the Lost City of Vilcabamba, even though we now know it was Machu Picchu. Unbeknownst to him, he had also traveled through Vilcabamba in 1911.

Three decades ago, the Lost City of the Tayrona people, a Machu Picchu-sized pre-Colombian archaeological site set on a high rainforest-swathed ridge in Colombia’s wild Sierra Nevada mountains ...