Inca Land

Archaeology was still a young discipline in the early 1900s and most of the public interest it generated centered on finds in the Middle East. No one had ever found the Inca strongholds said to lie in the mountains of Peru. In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a Yale University scholar, set off for Peru and found Machu Picchu not long after his arrival. At first, the discovery of a lost city high in the mountains was not as important to him as scaling Mount Coropua, Peru's highest peak, the tale of which...