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Field stages exhibit on Incas' executive retreat Machu Picchu called 'Camp David' of its time
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When President Bush wants to escape the White House, he often
heads to a wooded retreat some 70 miles into the Catoctin Mountains
of Maryland.
When the emperor Pachacuti wearied of running the Inca empire 500
years ago, he headed 80 miles northwest from the capital city of
Cuzco in southern Peru to Machu Picchu.
"Machu Picchu was the Camp David of its time," said Jonathan Haas,
curator of the Americas at the Field Museum, where a new exhibit on
the Inca royal refuge debuts Friday...
