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Machu Picchu
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History
Machu Picchu is not mentioned in any of the chronicles of the Spanish conquistadors.
Apart from a couple of German adventurers in the 1860s, who apparently looted the site
with the Peruvian government's permission, few apart from local Quechua people knew of
its existence until American historian Hiram Bingham was guided to it by locals in 1911.
