Still, Bingham’s work at Machu Picchu did reintroduce the ... Hiram Bingham, a professor of South American history at Yale University, was visiting Peru as part of the Yale Peruvian Expedition.

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.

BUT EXPERIENCING PERU’S ANCIENT HISTORY UP CLOSE IS MORE THAN WORTH THE THREAT OF ALTITUDE SICKNESS. NUMBER ONE, ON THE LIST GOES WITHOUT SAYING. THIS IS MACHU PICCHU, A RELIGIOUS, CEREMONIAL ...

“Machu Picchu is a wonder seen by the ... “We have a living culture and a living history,” said Jose Koechlin, chairman of Canatur, Peru’s national tourism agency.

Flipping through my history book in elementary school ... day,” without even knowing exactly where “this” was. Peru’s Machu Picchu stands as one of the most renowned New Wonders of ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on ... of tourists have been left stranded in Machu Picchu following protests in Peru (Getty Images/iStockphoto) This is not the first ...

We felt like we earned our Peru badges, for sure. Along the way to Machu Picchu we met kind people who have built a tourist infrastructure to share the treasures of their history even as political ...

Anyone interested in ancient history, nature ... On my own personal journey to Machu Picchu, I took the Peru Rail train directly from my hotel in Urubamba, Tambo del Inka, a Luxury Collection ...