Machu Picchu is a 15th century Incan citadel, believed to have been built for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–72). It is located in modern-day Peru's Cusco region, on a 7,970 feet (2,430 metre ...

The Inca citadel known as Machu Picchu is pictured with the Huayna Picchu mountain in the background. Peru's Machu Picchu is more than 600 years old and yet, experts continue to learn new things ...

Peru's Machu Picchu is more than 600 years old and yet, experts continue to learn new things about the iconic archaeological site. Last year, researchers discovered the ancient Incan city is at ...

Don’t be confused: Wayna is an alternate spelling of Huayna. Huchuy Picchu is the small mountain in front of Huayna Picchu. The trip to the top of Huchuy Picchu and back takes only about 45 minutes.

Specifically, an Inca town called Huayna Picchu was already mentioned in an atlas that was published in 1904, several years before Bingham even arrived in Peru.

The researchers found that a 1904 atlas that was published seven years before Bingham arrived in Peru referred to the ruins as Huayna Picchu. Additionally, ...

Peru’s famed tourist hotspot Machu Picchu has gone by the wrong name for more than 100 years, ... Currently, Huayna Picchu is the name given to a mountain further north.

Machu Picchu is one of the world’s most recognized archaeology sites – but we may have actually been calling it by the wrong name all these years.. So contends a study recently published in ...

How To Get To Peru. ... If making the ascent up Machu Picchu or the more challenging Huayna Picchu, visitors can expect a hike in duration of three hours and 1.5 hours respectively.

Llamas graze at Machu Picchu in Cuzco, Peru, on April 1, 2010. Researchers claim Machu Picchu has been referred to by the wrong name for more than 100 years, saying the Inca who built it likely ...