Hiram Bingham, the Real Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Machu Picchu (Volume Six, Episode Eleven) Part One Byte Sized Biographies…

IN 1911, an American explorer, Hiram Bingham, re-discovered the Incan ruins at Machu Picchu, helping to popularize this site, which today is one of the seven modern wonders of the world.







Hiram Bingham, at Harvard, with wife Alfreda





Church built on the former site of the Coricancha, Cuzco, Peru





Francisco Pizarro





Capture of Atahualpa by Pizarro at Cajamarca





Execution of Atahualpa by Pizarro, Cajamarca





Sacsayhuaman fortress ruins, Cuzco