Pick up a booklet and a map as signage at the site is minimal. Then, start your journey at the House of the Terrace Caretaker and Funeral Rock, a 20-minute walk from Machu Picchu's entrance.

Nestled atop a mountain ridge in Peru, the 15th-century Inca city of Machu Picchu had sat largely forgotten ... west of the Inca capital city of Cusco (see map). Ironically, Bingham visited ...

Machu Picchu, the royal retreat of the Incan emperor Pachacuti, sits atop the Urubamba Valley in Peru. Meaning "Old Mountain" in the Quechua Indian language, the complex was constructed in the ...

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 ...

Harry Bingham's father's crowning achievement was his exploration of Machu Picchu almost 100 years ago ... and that they had drawn up maps," says Jorge Flores Ochoa, a Peruvian anthropologist.

Reason: Machu Picchu is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. Machu Picchu is tangible evidence of the urban Inca Empire at the peak of its power and achievement—a citadel ...

The story of Machu Picchu's discovery is one of myth, court cases and controversy. The popular account involves the central character, the prototype for Indiana Jones, Hiram Bingham, who in 1911 ...