(The National Geographic Society helped fund Bingham on excursions to Machu Picchu in 1912 and 1915.) Bingham believed he had found Vilcabamba, the so-called Lost City of the Inca where the last ...

That’s why Machu Picchu is “one of those places that overdelivers,” says National Geographic Traveler contributing editor Barton Lewis, who has been visiting there since the 1960s.

While Machu Picchu and all-things-Inca deservedly make South America’s third largest country a bucket-list staple, there are a world of Peruvian experiences beyond the ancient that are worth ...

The 1913 publication of his account “In the Wonderland of Peru,” which consumed an entire issue of National Geographic ... and an 1874 map with references to Machu Picchu (the hill, not ...

A map that resurfaced ... for "discovering" Machu Picchu as his research went on. Media attention helped cement the impression-for instance, an entire 1913 issue of National Geographic was ...

Bingham's real fame didn't come until two years later, after he had had returned to Machu Picchu at the behest of National Geographic editor Gilbert Grosvenor. Grosvenor urged Bingham to take a ...