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Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu "Old Peak") is APRE-century Columbian Inca site located 15 2,430 meters (7,970 feet)
Situated on a hill above the Urubamba Location in Peru,
is 80kilometres (50mi) northwest of Cuzco and through which circulates. Most believe that Machu Picchu
was built as a polygon for the Inca emperor (1438-1472). Often referred to as
"The Lost City of the Incas", is perhaps the most famous icon of the Incas started building the
"inheritance" around 1400, but left in an official site of the Inca rulers a century
later in time Despite the well-known locally, which was unknown to the world
outside before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian since
  Machu Picchu has become a major tourist attraction.


Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished Its three main buildings are the Intihuatana,

Temple of the Sun and the Room of the Three Windows. These are located in what is known by archaeologists

as the Sacred District of Machu Picchu. In September 2007, Peru and almost reached an agreement on the return

artifacts that Yale University has held since Hiram Bingham them removed from Machu Picchu in the 20th century.In November 2010, a representative of Yale University agreed to return the artifacts to a Peruvian university

  History of Machu Picchu Machu Picchu was built around 1450, at the height of the [[Inca Empire]. was abandoned

  just over 100 years later, in 1572, following the Spanish late º Conquest.It may most

your presentation by travelers before the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the second area.

The notes had a place called Piccho, although there is evidence of the Spanish have visited the remote city.

  The sacred rock types disfigured by the conquistadors elsewhere have not been touched in Machu Picchu.

Hiram Bingham's theory that the complex was the birthplace of the Inca "Virgins of the Suns".

Recent research by scholars such as John Rowe and Richard Burger,

has convinced most archaeologists that Machu Picchu was an estate of the Inca emperor pachacute also

Johan Reinhard presented evidence that the site was selected because of its position on the characteristics

  sacred landscape as the mountains, which are intended to be in alignment with key astronomical events important to the Incas.