From 100 Facts for 100 Years of Machu Picchu - #37

By Catharine Hamm | Los Angeles Times Travel Editor


37. Hiram Bingham continued,  "Surprise followed surprise until we came upon the realization that we were in the midst of as wonderful ruins as any ever found in Peru."

Yet it was not until after Bingham's death in 1956 that it was discovered that Machu Picchu was not the lost city of the Incas and much of what he thought about Machu Picchu was incorrect.