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Beholding the ancient incan ruins of machu Picchu as they rise from the Peruvian jungle is a joy that deserves to be on everyone's travel wish list. But did you know that there's more than one way to arrive at this World Heritage Site? How you approach Machu Picchu is going to affect your experience of it, so consider the options carefully before you embark on this once-in-a-lifetime experience. We've found an easy way, a hard way and something in between that combines adventure and comfort in sublime proportions...
...first photos of a famous baby are like Incan gold to paparazzi. What's a star to do? BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE sold snaps of Shiloh Nouvel for millions and gave the moolah to children's charities. They're not alone. Kevin Federline and Britney Spears took the reported $500,000 they got for the first photos of son Sean Preston and donated it to victims of Hurricane Katrina in Brit's home state, Louisiana...
...retrospect, Bingham can be excused for concluding that Machu Picchu was the holiest of Incan sites. Its inaccessibility certainly suggested that. So did some of its apparently religious structures, which were built with distinctive three-window designs, evoking the legend that the Incan people were created by three brothers who appeared through a trio of portals. And the large percentage of uncovered skeletons that Bingham's expert determined to be female suggested the remains of an Incan nunnery...
...idea that much of this is fantasy is pretty persuasive too. There are no Incan records--the Incas had no written language--but the Spaniards, who conquered so much of South America, kept plenty. Fifteen years ago, John Howland Rowe, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, was studying the archives left by the Spaniards at Cuzco and came across a 16th century lawsuit filed by descendants of Pachacuti seeking the return of royal family lands, including a retreat called Picchu. Over the years, other researchers have dug deeper into the mystery, none deeper than Burger, a onetime student...
...findings will come as a blow to mystics and UFOlogists like Shirley MacLaine, who famously claimed to have had an out-of-body experience on Machu Picchu. But even the truest believers will have time to get used to the idea. An exhibition of 420 Incan artifacts--354 of them from Machu Picchu--curated by Burger and Salazar, opened last month at Yale's Peabody Museum, where it will remain until May 4. Then it begins a two-year tour of Los Angeles; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Denver; Houston; and Chicago. The exhibit makes for riveting history--even...