Machu Picchu may have been looted decades before arrival of Yale scholar, historian says

AP Worldstream | June 5, 2008| | Copyright

The jungle-shrouded Inca citadel of Machu Picchu may have been rediscovered _ and looted _ decades before the Yale scholar credited with the find first got there, a researcher said Thursday.

Most academics say Yale University's Hiram Bingham III rediscovered the site in Peru's verdant southeastern Andes during a 1911 expedition.

But Paolo Greer, a retired Alaska oil pipeline foreman, says otherwise. Thirty years of digging through files in the United States and Peru led him to maps and documents showing that a German businessman named Augusto R. Berns got there first.

Berns ...

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