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1 kwi 2022 · When an American explorer rediscovered the lost 15th-century Incan site in 1911, he called it Machu Picchu. Historical documents reveal that name is incorrect.
6 kwi 2022 · For decades, the ancient Incan ruins in Peru have been called Machu Picchu. But the original name was Picchu or Huayna Picchu, according to two researchers.
Machu Picchu [a] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [9] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [10] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.
28 mar 2022 · A new study suggests that scholars and the public alike have been calling Machu Picchu by the wrong name for over a century, reports Dan Collyns for the Guardian.
1 kwi 2022 · Report author Donato Amado Gonzales -- a historian at the Ministry of Culture in Peru -- independently discovered the same pattern, so they decided to team up and unearth the real name...
13 cze 2011 · Photo by Gustavo Basso/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Tucked away in the rocky countryside northwest of Cuzco, Peru, Machu Picchu is believed to have been a royal estate or sacred religious site...
4 kwi 2022 · What the world has come to know as Machu Picchu for over a century was actually named something different before its 1911 rediscovery, according to new findings.
