THE ANDES OF SOUTHERN PERU: GEOGRAPHICAL RECONNAISSANCE ALONG THE SEVENTY-THIRD MERIDIAN [ Discovery of Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham] Bowman 1916 1st edition (Bowman, Isaiah, Hiram Bingham)

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THE ANDES OF SOUTHERN PERU: GEOGRAPHICAL RECONNAISSANCE ALONG THE SEVENTY-THIRD MERIDIAN [ Discovery of Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham] Bowman 1916 1st edition
By Bowman, Isaiah, Hiram Bingham
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New York, 1916, 1st edition. 336 pp, 100's of maps, photos and diagrams. Account and results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911 led by Hiram Bingham. This discovered Machu Picchu. Very Good.

Hiram Bingham was thrilled by the prospect of unexplored Inca cities, and in 1911 returned to the Andes with the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. On July 24, 1911, Melchor Arteaga led Bingham to Machu Picchu, which had been largely forgotten by everybody except the small number of people living in the immediate valley (possibly including two local missionaries named Thomas Payne and Stuart McNairn whose descendants claim that they had already climbed to the ruins in 1906). Also the Cusco explorers Enrique Palma, Gabino Sanchez and Agust�n Lizarraga are said to have arrived at the site in 1901.

Bingham returned to Peru in 1912 and 1915 with the support of Yale and the National Geographic Society.

Machu Picchu has become one of the major tourist attractions in South America, and Bingham is recognized as the man who brought the site to world attention, although many others helped to bring this site into the public eye. The switchback-filled road that carries tourist buses to the site from the Urubamba River is called the Hiram Bingham Highway.

Bingham has been cited as one possible basis for the "Indiana Jones" character. His book Lost City of the Incas became a bestseller upon its publication in 1948.

Peru has long sought the return of the estimated 40,000 artifacts, including mummies, ceramics and bones, that Bingham had excavated and exported from the Machu Picchu site. On September 14, 2007, an agreement was made between Yale University and the Peruvian government for the return of the objects. On April 12, 2008, the Peruvian government stated that it had revised previous estimates of 4,000 pieces up to 40,000.

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