Word: incas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After speaking briefly on the four periods of Inca history, Professor Bingham went directly to a description of the expedition of 1912, on which was discovered Machu Picchu, the capital city of the Incas. He first told of the difficulties involved in reaching the region for research; how the party painfully plodded its way through a well-nigh impassable jungle, at the rate of a mile a day; how the problem of labor was overcome only by Peruvian police, who forced the lethargic natives to work; and how the expedition made its way over mountains, flooded torrents, and fathomless abysses...
...Bingham, of Yale, will give an illustrated lecture on his recent descoveries in Peru in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The Yale Peruvian Expedition, of which Professor Bingham is the director, explored much hitherto unknown territory in the Andean region, and found several ruined Inca cities of great archaeological interest. The largest of these, "Machu Picchu," the most perfectly preserved Inca city known, was entirely excavated. The buildings were perched, upon the top of an almost inaccessible ridge, two thousand feet above the Urubamba River. In the excellence of its masonry, the daring...