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HIS PERSONA--THE bandito mustache, the Stetson hat--screamed "bold adventurer dude," and with good reason. Self-taught American explorer Douglas (Gene) Savoy, called "the real Indiana Jones" by PEOPLE magazine, discovered more than 40 lost cities in Peru, including the storied Vilcabamba, thought to have been the last refuge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 1, 2007 | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

Chris: I think each “O” represents the score that this cereal would get on a taste scale ranging from zero to delicious. It tries to brag about containing “spelt, quinoa and kamut.” Quinoa was the Mother Grain of the...

Author: By Nathaniel F. Houghteling, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Love It/Hate It: Generic Cereal | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

There was no doubt in Hiram Bingham's mind that he had stumbled onto something mystical in the summer of 1911, when he discovered the dazzling Incan settlement now known as Machu Picchu. He was convinced that the remote Peruvian outpost dotted with temples was a sacred city, the birthplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Spiritual Retreat | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

But the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Spiritual Retreat | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

And what about all those temples Bingham discovered? "The emperor was considered descended from the sun, so there would have to be a religious component," Burger says with a shrug. "But the Incas probably spent just as much time hunting or drinking corn beer on the plaza."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Spiritual Retreat | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

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