Modern Era · South America · Exploration
1911
Machu Picchu rediscovered
1911
An American historian named Hiram Bingham, hunting through the Peruvian Andes for a lost Inca stronghold, was led by a local farmer up a steep ridge and found the ruins of Machu Picchu overgrown with jungle. The fifteenth-century stone citadel had been visible only to a few farmers for four centuries. The world now had a new wonder.
In context
Also in 1911 (5 other events on record)
- Wuchang uprising ends the Qing · East Asia · Politics
- Amundsen reaches the South Pole · Oceania · Exploration
- Triangle Shirtwaist fire · North America · Disaster
- Rutherford's gold foil experiment · Europe · Science
- Monet's water lilies series · Europe · Culture
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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