Hiram Bingham on the discovery of Machu Picchu (National Geographic, April 1913) ...
Presently we found ourselves in the midst of a tropical
forest, beneath the shade of whose trees we could make out a maze of ancient
walls, the ruins of buildings made of blocks of granite, some of which were
beautifully fitted together in the most refined style of Inca architecture. A
few rods farther along we came to a little open space, on which were two
splendid temples or palaces. The superior character of the stone work, the
presence of these splendid edifices, and of what appeared to be an unusually large
number of finely constructed stone dwellings, led me to believe that Machu
Picchu might prove to be the largest and most important ruin discovered in
South America since the days of the Spanish conquest.
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