Analysis of historical documents showed no evidence of the site being called Machu Picchu until 1911. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 A new study suggests that scholars and the ...

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Nestled in an extraordinarily beautiful setting in the middle of a tropical mountain forest in Peru, the world’s most recognised archaeological site was originally not called Machu Picchu, historians ...

The world has known the historical ancient site as "Machu Picchu" for over a century. Researchers say the city may have originally been called just "Picchu" or "Huayna Picchu." Nonetheless, it's not ...

Yale Professor Hiram Bingham was on an expedition up the Urubamba River, west of Cusco, Peru, in search of Vitcos, the “lost capital” of the Incas. It was here that the remnants of the once-vast Inca ...