36024 July 1911: Hiram Bingham reaches Machu Picchu
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On 24 July 1911, the American explorer Hiram Bingham was guided by local farmers to Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Inca city high in the Andes of Peru. His photographs made it famous worldwide. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site visited by more than a million people a year.