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Thursday, July 7, 2011

From 100 Facts for 100 Years of Machu Picchu - #30



By Catharine Hamm | Los Angeles Times Travel Editor

#30 Like many explorers, Hiram Bingham didn't know exactly what he found.

"His strategy for analyzing the site was way ahead of his time," says Richard Burger of the Peabody Museum of Natural History and an expert on Peruvian anthropology and archeology. "Unfortunately, when it came to interpreting what he found, Bingham got most of it seriously wrong."

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