machu picchu
The Ruins of Machu Picchu, one of the 7 wonders of the world, discovered by archaeologist Hiram Bingham. Hiram Bingham was a professor of the University of Yale. Machu Picchu is an Inca site located around 2,000 meters and about 8,000ft above sea level. It’s situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru. Not far from Cusco.
Machu Picchu was built by the Inca around 1400BC. Most archeologist believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti in (1435-1472) as it was referred as the lost city of the Incas.
Machu Picchu means old peak in the Quechua language when at sunset the sun sinks behind the shrine.
Machu Picchu was abandoned just over 100 years later in the 1500s, as a belated result of the Spanish Conquest.
The Spaniards never found Machu Picchu even thought they suspected its existence.
The Intihuatana stone and its resident spirits remain on their original position. Intihuatana stones were the supremely scared objects of the Inca people and were broken at an Inca shrine.
Legend tells that when a sensitive person touches their forehead to the Intihuatana stone it opens their vision in the spirit world.
In Machu Picchu there are these types of scared rocks defaced by Conquistadors in other location are untouched at Machu Picchu.
Archeologists say that complex was the birth place of the Inca “Virgin of the Sun”. Also that Machu Picchu was an estate of the emperor Pachacuti. Pachacuti means “he who shakes the earth.” He was considered as a national hero in modern Peru.
There are 3 primary buildings in Machu Picchu they are the Intihuatana, the temple of the sun, and the room of the three windows. All the three rooms together are called the scared district of Machu Picchu.
The Intihuatana stone is one of the many ritual stones in South America. These stone are arranged to point directly at the sun during the winter solstice. Researchers believe that it was built as
Machu Picchu was built by the Inca around 1400BC. Most archeologist believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti in (1435-1472) as it was referred as the lost city of the Incas.
Machu Picchu means old peak in the Quechua language when at sunset the sun sinks behind the shrine.
Machu Picchu was abandoned just over 100 years later in the 1500s, as a belated result of the Spanish Conquest.
The Spaniards never found Machu Picchu even thought they suspected its existence.
The Intihuatana stone and its resident spirits remain on their original position. Intihuatana stones were the supremely scared objects of the Inca people and were broken at an Inca shrine.
Legend tells that when a sensitive person touches their forehead to the Intihuatana stone it opens their vision in the spirit world.
In Machu Picchu there are these types of scared rocks defaced by Conquistadors in other location are untouched at Machu Picchu.
Archeologists say that complex was the birth place of the Inca “Virgin of the Sun”. Also that Machu Picchu was an estate of the emperor Pachacuti. Pachacuti means “he who shakes the earth.” He was considered as a national hero in modern Peru.
There are 3 primary buildings in Machu Picchu they are the Intihuatana, the temple of the sun, and the room of the three windows. All the three rooms together are called the scared district of Machu Picchu.
The Intihuatana stone is one of the many ritual stones in South America. These stone are arranged to point directly at the sun during the winter solstice. Researchers believe that it was built as