In early 1916, the legendary Yale University archaeologist Hiram Bingham III completed his third and final expedition in southern Peru. He shipped home 74 boxes of artifacts from Machu Picchu, a ...

One hundred years ago, Hiram Bingham set out on an expedition to explore the reported ruins known as Machu Picchu. One hundred years ago yesterday, Hiram Bingham, an assistant professor of Latin ...

__1911: __Exploring in Peru, Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham locates Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas. The event will set off a century of controversy. Bingham was born in Honolulu, the son ...

In 1911, former U.S. senator and explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovered what would become one the “Seven Wonders of the Modern World,” a legendary ancient Incan citadel: Machu Picchu. Perched high on a ...

A team of historians say the Inca city of Machu Picchu in Peru might have been ransacked by an adventurer decades before a 20th century expedition brought it to the world's attention. It is generally ...

Machu Picchu, Peru's most important tourist destination and one of the 7 Wonders. (Photo by Gustavo Basso/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Machu Picchu is a historic site like few on earth. One of the seven ...

In July of 1911, Hiram Bingham III embarked on an expedition to what would lead to one of the most significant discoveries of the 20th century: the discovery of Machu Picchu. A teacher, explorer, ...

Legend long had it that when Spain conquered the Incas in the 1500s, Incan nobility fled with their riches and women to a city called Vilcabamba. For hundreds of years after, that city, shrouded in ...

July 24th marks the 100th anniversary of Hiram Bingham’s rediscovery of Machu Picchu, which awoke the world to the beauty and mystery of the “Lost City of the Inca.” Celebrations around the world are ...