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...discovered the dazzling Incan settlement now known as Machu Picchu. He was convinced that the remote Peruvian outpost dotted with temples was a sacred city, the birthplace and final stronghold of the Incas, where virgins sought sanctuary and priests worshipped the sun god. The charismatic Bingham--a Yale University archaeologist, later a Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator and much later a model for Hollywood's Indiana Jones--announced, in a series of magazine articles and best-selling books, what he had found, and the world ate them up. Tourists and spiritual seekers have been making the pilgrimage to Machu Picchu...
...what, exactly, are they visiting? More than 90 years after Machu Picchu first landed on the scientific map, modern archaeologists are making a persuasive case that it wasn't a spiritual center at all. Machu Picchu, it turns out, may have been nothing more than a mountain retreat for the Emperor Pachacuti and his royal court, sort of a 15th century Camp David. "It was just a country palace where they'd go to get away from the capital, Cuzco," says Yale archaeologist Richard Burger. "It was only a three-day walk away...
...16th century lawsuit filed by descendants of Pachacuti seeking the return of royal family lands, including a retreat called Picchu. Over the years, other researchers have dug deeper into the mystery, none deeper than Burger, a onetime student of Rowe's, and his wife Lucy Salazar, a Yale archaeologist...
...Modern Art and a half-course in Italian Painting. The course in Ancient Architecture, temporarily reduced from a whole to a half-course, will be given by Professor G. H. Chase, Chairman of the Division of Fine Arts and John E. Hudson, Professor of Classical Archaeology. As a practical archaeologist, experienced excavator, and well-known teacher of the Classics, he is peculiarly fitted for the exposition and interpretation of Classical Architecture...
...Veritas: The Quest” begins as Nikko’s archaeologist mother suddenly vanishes into an ancient tomb, putting Nikko under the control of his uncaring estranged father...