Machu Picchu. What Bingham saw was a dramatic and towering citadel of stone cut from escarpments. Fashioned by men without mortar, the stones fit so tightly together that not even a knife's blade ...

The Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded and confounded visitors since it was unveiled to the wider world more than ...

After four days of trekking the Inca Trail, I had just reached a pass where I had my first view of Machu Picchu. I thought ... Misty conditions wrap the stone engineering in a soft cloak of ...

They displayed a mastery of stone-cutting, astronomy and mathematics ... home of the largest collection of Machu Picchu artefacts in the world, which were returned by Yale University in 2011.

Peru has closed its famous tourist site Machu Picchu indefinitely over the ongoing ... roads were blocked and police fired tear gas at stone-throwing demonstrators in the capital, Lima.

Inca mastery of landscape and environment is epitomised at Machu Picchu, their most famous ruin ... When the landscape proved too inhospitable for stone, they used straw, constructing beautiful ...