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ROAD TO MACHU PICCHU RUNS THROUGH L.A.(U)
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Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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June 28, 2003
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Byline: Steven Rosen Staff Writer
The enduring allure of Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Incan ruins nestled into Peru's Andes Mountains, is its mystery.
Why and how did the Incas build such an impressive estate - a five-acre city, really, with 150 structures carved from granite - in such a remote and rugged locale? And why did they abandon it in the early 1500s, letting it become so lost in overgrowth and hidden to the world that it wasn't rediscovered until ...