Machu Picchu stands as the pinnacle of ancient engineering and architecture, enough for some parties to credit aliens for its construction. What mysteries does its stone paths hide? Oklahoma State ...

Machu Picchu ... The site also boasts Huayna Picchu Mountain, which looms nearly 1,000 feet above terraces, plazas and stone ruins as mists swirl up from the Urubamba River.

Although the reconstructed temples are the most impressive buildings, Machu Picchu’s most important structure is the Intihuatana or “hitching post of the sun,” a mysterious abstract stone ...

A historic landmark, Palacio del Inka, a Luxury Collection Hotel was reportedly built for the ruler who created Machu Picchu ...

Inca mastery of landscape and environment is epitomised at Machu Picchu, their most famous ruin ... When the landscape proved too inhospitable for stone, they used straw, constructing beautiful ...

Tantalising mysteries surround Machu Picchu's purpose ... across mountain passes, up stone-cut stairways and through Inca settlements, arriving at the spectacular Sun Gate to see dawn break ...

The final session in this unit crosses the Atlantic further west to the mountains of Peru where, at the mysterious Machu Picchu, we reconstruct an Inca astronomical Temple of the Sun amidst rock ...

He uncovered a few Inca-carved stone walls and bridges but dismissed the ruins and ultimately focused on Machu Picchu. Savoy uncovered much of the rest. So what then was this city that Bingham had ...

a 20-minute walk from Machu Picchu's entrance. From there, head to the Temple of the Sun to admire the exquisite Incan masonry and a granite stone that may have served as the Inca's calendar.