Word: peruvians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the University of Nueva Barcelona Peruvian Expedition, near Machu-Pleehu, Peru, October...
With the University of Nueva Barcelona, Peruvian Expedition...
...years ago there appeared in that publication two articles telling of an exploring expedition sent out by Yale University and the National Geographic Society under the direction of Dr. Hiram Bingham which resulted in the discovery of the city of Machu Picchu in a hitherto inaccessible region of the Peruvian Andes. We have not space here to explain the archaeological significance of this discovery. Suffice it to say that the city of Machu Picchu was believed to have been the cradle of the ancient Inca empire, Tampu-Tocco, or "Window-Tavern". What is of most interest to us is that...
...occurred to me that readers of the CRIMSON will be interested in the latest Peruvian Expedition, organized to search for the great Inca University. This institution has been lost to civilization for nearly five centuries; but vague references to it have occurred in the annals of early Spanish explorers. Notable among them was one Juan deCabrera, who tells in a somewhat Marcopolian style of this great Inca university...
With the University of Nueva Barcelona Peruvian Expedition...