The ruins of Machu Picchu, discovered in 1911 by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham in 1911. The site received significant publicity after the National Geographic Society devoted their entire April 1913 issue to Machu Picchu. It is one of the world's top ten endangered cultural heritages. In 1983 UNESCO designated Machu Picchu a World Heritage Site, as "an absolute masterpiece of architecture and a unique testimony to the Inca civilization". When the occasion of the centenary of Machu Picchu found, Mike Torrey, American architecture photographer and the author of Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu’s Terraces of Enlightenment, accepted our interview during the China Tour, telling the story between him and Machu Picchu
The ruins of Machu Picchu, discovered in 1911 by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham in 1911. The site received significant publicity after the National Geographic Society devoted their entire April 1913 issue to Machu Picchu. It is one of the world's top ten endangered cultural heritages. In 1983 UNESCO designated Machu Picchu a World Heritage Site, as "an absolute masterpiece of architecture and a unique testimony to the Inca civilization". When the occasion of the centenary of Machu Picchu found, Mike Torrey, American architecture photographer and the author of Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu’s Terraces of Enlightenment, accepted our interview during the China Tour, telling the story between him and Machu Picchu.
