A pair of local farmers walked them a short way before handing them over ... in 2007 as one of the new seven wonders of the world: Machu Picchu. What Bingham saw was a dramatic and towering ...

Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 meters above sea level in southern Peru, where the Andes and the Amazon ...