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Lost Inca City Machu Picchu Discovered By Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham led a Yale financed expedition into the Urubamba valley in 1911 and uncovered Machu Picchu buried in dense foliage. Bones suggested a society where women were taller and men smaller, with Machu Picchu serving as a shrine for virgins of the sun and Incas priests.
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