Hiram Bingham III was an archaeologist and lecturer of history at Yale. His wife had money, and he was able to finance his own exploration in South America. In 1911 he led an expedition to Peru in ...

The remote city of Machu Picchu was abandoned after the Spanish arrived in Peru in the early 16th century, and the conquistadors never found it. How things change. Now, the Incan empire’s most ...

To 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 Hiram ...

Machu Picchu stands 2,430 m above sea-level, in the middle of a tropical mountain forest, in an extraordinarily beautiful setting. It was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at ...

Considered a masterpiece of architecture and engineering, Machu Picchu, declared one of the New 7 Wonders of the World in 2007, never ceases to amaze. On July 4, Pedro Astete, director of national ...

The First women only Inca Trail tours, led by women tours guides and supported by women porters. Evolution Treks Peru Talk about wonder women. The first-ever all-female journey to Machu Picchu, one of ...

More than 90 years after Yale explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovered Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, fascination with the life of the Inca people and one of the most mysterious and ...

On this day in weather history, Hiram Bingham found the ruins of Machu Picchu. This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, ...

Peru is often defined by the mystical ruins of Machu Picchu, but the country holds far more archaeological treasures than ...

The first-ever all-female journey to Machu Picchu, one of the seven wonders of the world, is happening in time to cap off Women’s History Month on March 30. Women-only porters, tour guides and hikers ...