Harry Bingham's father's crowning achievement was his exploration of Machu Picchu almost 100 years ago. Yet Hiram Bingham III's status as the "discoverer" of the ruins is in dispute, and the ...

6 min read It's a bit humbling, standing at Machu Picchu where Hiram Bingham stood with his camera nearly a century ago. Bingham, a Yale professor and adventurer, rediscovered in 1913 the lost ...

Machu Picchu. It was in 1911 that the United States explorer and archaeologist, Professor Hiram Bingham, was told about the ruins by local Indians who guided him up the mountain through snake ...

"Machu Picchu might prove to be the largest and most important ruin discovered in South America since the days of the Spanish conquest," wrote Hiram Bingham, the explorer who stumbled upon the ...