navigated the dense tropical forests of southern Peru and came across the ruins of an abandoned Inca city. Bingham’s work would soon kickstart a decades-long journey to discover who built Machu ...

journeyed through Peru in search of the "lost city" of Vilcabamba, where the Incas fought their last stand against Spanish ...

Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Incan city that was abandoned by the Incas after the Spanish conquest. The ruins feature about 200 structures that were used for religious, agricultural ...

He uncovered a few Inca-carved stone walls and bridges but dismissed the ruins and ultimately focused on Machu Picchu. Savoy uncovered much of the rest. So what then was this city that Bingham had ...

In 1911, former U.S. senator and explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovered what would become one the “Seven Wonders of the Modern ...

Founded by the Spanish on the ruins of an Incan city, Quito is the second-highest capital city in the world, sitting at 9,350 feet. It has the best-preserved historic center in Latin America ...

The royal palaces of Cusco, the Inca capital, fell swiftly to the European conquerors, and a new Spanish colonial city rose on their ruins, burying or obliterating the Inca past. In more recent ...

The site also boasts Huayna Picchu Mountain, which looms nearly 1,000 feet above terraces, plazas and stone ruins as mists ... stumbled upon the "lost city of the Incas." Since then, its ...