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MACHU PICCHU: THE CITY IN THE SKY

Inca people gather potatoes
from their terraced farms

Although Bingham is widely credited
with the discovery, others have
claimed they found Machu Picchu first

Bingham at Pampaconas, Peru, near
the end of the 1911 expedition that
led to the discovery of the city

The High Priest of the
Sun was second only to
the emperor

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