Machu Picchu: The Lost City of the Incas

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Source/Further reading:

www.ancient.eu/Machu_Picchu/
www.britannica.com/place/Machu-Picchu
www.history.com/topics/south-america/machu-picchu
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/top-10/peru/machu-picchu/secrets/
In Our Time podcast on the Inca: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005t68
BBC Radio doc on finding Machu Picchu: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015cmrt
Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui: www.ancient.eu/Pachacuti_Inca_Yupanqui/
Fall of the Inca Empire: www.ancient.eu/article/915/pizarro--the-fall-of-the-inca-empire/
That time a beer commercial damaged the sacred site! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/923415.stm
Building Machu Picchu: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/wright-inca-engineering/
Machu Picchu’s water system: www.archaeology.org/issues/59-1301/76-sidebars/394-machu-picchu-inca-hydraulic-engineering
The Inca writing system: www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931972-600-we-thought-the-incas-couldnt-write-these-knots-change-everything/
Yale and the missing objects: www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132083890/yale-returns-machu-picchu-artifacts-to-peru
Machu Picchu visitors per year: www.perutelegraph.com/news/peru-travel/how-many-tourists-visited-machu-picchu-in-2018