Word: peruvian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Meeting of Harvard Zoological Club. "The Harvard Peruvian Expedition," by Mr. G. K. Noble. Room 46, Zoological Laboratory...
Professor Hiram Bingham, the Yale archaeologist who conducted the recent successful Peruvian expedition, lectured in New Lecture Hall last evening, under the auspices of the Harvard Anthropological Society...
...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...
Professor Hiram 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...
...Penikese Island in 1873, and in 1875 was a member of an expedition to the west coast of South America, for the purpose of inspecting the copper mines of Peru and Chile. While there he made a minute examination of the shores of Lake Titicaca, and collected many Peruvian antiquities which he deposited in the Peabody Museum...