In 1911, Hiram Bingham, an American explorer revealed the most emblematic Inca complex nowadays, Machu Picchu. Even if this event has been called a “discovery”, locals from the area who guided Hiram Bingham to its location, cultivated the terraces [andenes] of the site that was built during the 15th century, a century before Spaniards reached the Inca land. Fortunately, Machu Picchu was not found by Spanish colonizers, and remained conserved under the vegetation that covered it for nearly 500 years.
