Word: urubamba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romantic History. Hiram Bingham, Yale scholar and later U.S. Senator from Connecticut, set out on muleback in 1911 in search of the lost Indian city, which he was convinced was more than legend. For years there was talk of ruins located far above the Urubamba Canyon near Cuzco, but they were known only to a few local Indians until Bingham came upon "a great flight of beautifully constructed stone-faced terraces, perhaps a hundred of them, each hundreds of feet long and ten feet high." Bingham died five years ago, after spending much of his free time exploring and writing...