This Peruvian city was discovered over 100 years ago, but archaeologists are still trying to solve the mystery of its purpose ...
I recently visited Machu Picchu for an amazing luxury weekend and found new construction and red-taped no public access areas were increasing on a daily basis. I also watched several excavations in ...
High in the Andes, near the gates of Machu Picchu, a wave of unrest in mid-September left hundreds of visitors stranded at Peru’s iconic Inca ruins while exposing long-simmering tensions between ...
It was in 2007 when Peru’s Machu Picchu Inca sanctuary was designated one of the New 7 Wonders of the World after receiving more than 100 million votes in a global competition. Now, the New7Wonders ...
It used to be that you could visit Machu Picchu more than once on the same ticket—entering the Incan ruins at daybreak and then circling back around to see the afternoon sun cast its light on ...
The site covers some 80,000 acres. UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1983. Dave Mason When Hiram Bingham, a young Yale professor, discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, he found a site overrun with ...
NARRATOR: High in the Peruvian Andes, there's an ancient city called Machu Picchu. It is a ruin that defies explanation. Who were the mysterious people who built it and why did they build it here?