Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale Makes the Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the Age by Locating and Excavating Ruins of Machu Picchu on a Peak in the Andes of Peru.There is nothing new under the sun, they say. That is only relatively true. Just now, when we thought there was practically no portion of the earth's surface still unknown, when the discovery of a single lake or mountain, or the charting of a remote strip of coast line was enough to give a man fame as an explorer, one member of the daredevil explorers' craft has "struck it rich." Struck it so dazzlingly rich, indeed, that all his confrères may be pardoned if they gnash their teeth in chagrin and turn green with envy. The lucky man is Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale, he whose hobby is South America. He has just announced that he has had the superb good fortune to discover an entire city, two thousand years old, a place of splendid palaces and temples and grim encircling walls, hidden away so thoroughly on the top of a well-nigh inaccessible mountain peak of the Peruvian Andes that the Spanish invaders of four hundred years ago never set eyes upon it. He calls it Machu Picchu. (From New York Times, June 15, 1913)One hundred years ago in the summer of 1911, Bingham discovered Machu Picchu, returning in the summer of 1912 to excavate under the auspices of Yale and The National Geographic Society, and coming home to great acclaim and a spate of published articles and photos. He fully described the 1911 expedition and original find in his 1922 book INCA LANDS: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru. (Summary by New York Times and ToddHW)
01 - Crossing the Desert, part 102 - Crossing the Desert, part 203 - Climbing Coropuna, part 104 - Climbing Coropuna, part 205 - To Parinacochas, part 106 - To Parinacochas, part 207 - Flamingo Lake, part 108 - Flamingo Lake, part 209 - Titicaca10 - The Vilcanota Country and the Peruvian Highlanders, part 111 - The Vilcanota Country and the Peruvian Highlanders, part 212 - The Valley of the Huatanay, part 113 - The Valley of the Huatanay, part 214 - The Oldest City in South America15 - The Last Four Incas, part 116 - The Last Four Incas, part 217 - Searching for the Last Inca Capital, part 118 - Searching for the Last Inca Capital, part 219 - The Search Continued, part 120 - The Search Continued, part 221 - The Fortress of Uiticos and the House of the Sun22 - Vilcabamba23 - Conservidayoc, part 124 - Conservidayoc, part 225 - The Pampa of Ghosts26 - The Story of Tampu-tocco, a Lost City of the First Incas27 - Machu Picchu28 - The Origin of Machu Picchu
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