When Hiram Bingham announced he had discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, families were farming between its terraces and an 11-year-old boy led him up to the ruins — the "lost city of the Incas" appears on maps drawn decades before he arrived
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A Yale explorer's celebrated 1911 "discovery" of Machu Picchu overlooked an inconvenient truth: local families already lived there, and the ruins weren't lost at all.
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