Outrage.(rebuilding Machu Picchu, Peru)(Brief Article) From: The Architectural Review | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: DAVEY, PETER | COPYRIGHT 2001 EMAP Architecture. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Machu Picchu is being unbuilt - though no one knows exactly what it was like before being laid waste by earthquake and jungle. Rebuilding blurs the image and prevents proper archaelogical research. It should stop at least until we understand more.

Machu Picchu is one of the world's most famous places, made the more romantic by being discovered by the American archaeologist Hiram Bingham in the jungles of the upper Amazon basin barely 90 years ago. It is one of the most s...

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