F or thousands of years, a visit to Machu Picchu has been just as much about the journey as the destination. That’s part of ...

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

Machu Picchu, a royal estate once visited by great emperors, fell into ruin. Today, the site is on the United Nations' list of World Heritage sites. Originally published Aug. 31, 2012 and updated ...

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 ...

Nestled atop a mountain ridge in Peru, the 15th-century Inca city of Machu Picchu had sat largely forgotten for centuries—until archaeologist Hiram Bingham began excavations of the ruins a ...

An estimated 850,000 tourists visited Machu Picchu in 2008. This year’s two-month closing, depending where you get your numbers, likely cost the government between $160 million and $416 million. ...

T o say that Machu Picchu was “discovered” on July 24, 1911, is to forget that ruins cannot truly be found for the first time, since someone had to build them first. Still, when Yale historian ...

One of Mr. Koechlin’s employees, Joaquín Escudero, transferred from Inkaterra’s Machu Picchu hotel, where he worked as its general manager, to become general manager at Hacienda Urubamba, its ...