Framing a Lost City Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu

When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed a by few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO world heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable tra...

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Peruvian Expeditions-(1912-1915)
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Anthropological ethics
Machu Picchu Site (Peru)
Peru-Antiquities
Peruvian Expeditions-(1912-1915)
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