Train Crash Near Peru's Machu Picchu Kills 1, Injures 40
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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 vegetation. At an altitude of nearly 8,000 feet, the ...
Peruvian archeologists have unearthed the first full Inca burial site at Machu Picchu since the famous mountaintop citadel was discovered 90 years ago, officials said. “It’s important because nothing like this -- a burial site and all that goes with it ...