PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIRAM BINGHAM IN MACHUPICCHU AND AROUND
The Wonderful journey of the Peruvian Expedition in the Land of the Incas
Between 1906 and 1911 Hiram Bingham, a professor of History and Geography of South America at Harvard and in Princeton, starring in our country several exploration trips. His journey culminates in the dense jungles of Cusco nothing less than the discovery of a huge stone city, where he had been driven by locals happily already identified for the story: Melchor Arteaga, Toribio Recharte, Anacleto Alvarez and a certain Fuentes - the last three farmers at the same citadel-, All besides preceded by Agustín Lizárraga, an anonymous explorer than ten years back, looking for farmlands, who would be put foot at the metropolis of stone.
Crossing the Apurimac. The balsero cusqueño seems observe with astonishment that Bingham knows use the rowing.
Distant view of what Bingham called Ingenuity Group.