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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...
8.00.--*Lecture. "Recent Exploration in the Land of the Incas," (illustrated by slides). Professor Hiram Bingham, of Yale, at New Lecture Hall.
Travelling north from Chili, Professor Brewster entered the tin-producing region of Bolivia with its picturesque adobe houses, hilly cities, and gaily clad women selling their wares in the streets at remarkably small prices. Here the Hamas, small camels which have been domesticated since the time of the Incas, do...
Passing from Bolivia to Peru, the traveller notices at once the remains of the ancient race of Incas. "The Stonehenge of America," a curious collection of huge carved boulders, stands in the middle of a great, brown plain. These ruins, much resembling the stonehenge of England, were probably built in...
A little more than a year ago, the second expedition from Harvard was sent to make astronomical observations in South America. The first was under the direction of Mr. S. I. Bailey and was very successful. Prof. William H. Pickering was in charge of the second and, with a number...