Machu Picchu. What Bingham saw was a dramatic and towering citadel of stone cut from escarpments. Fashioned by men without mortar, the stones fit so tightly together that not even a knife's blade ...

Machu Picchu stands 2,430 m above sea-level ... terraces and ramps seem as if they have been cut naturally in the continuous rock escarpments. The natural setting, on the eastern slopes of the Andes, ...

The architectural prowess of the Inca is on full display at Machu Picchu. The structures are built with precision, using a ...