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Machu Picchu was built around 1450 CE, less than 50 years before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World.

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The stones at Machu Picchu fit so tightly together that not even a knife’s blade could fit between them.

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Machu Picchu wasn’t known to the world until a Yale Professor , Hiram Bingham, re-discovered it in 1911.

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Machu Picchu means “Old Peak” or “Old Mountain” in the Quechua Indian language.

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Nude tourism is a recent trend in Machu Picchu. People caught in the act are fined, deported and even banned from visiting the country.

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Machu Picchu was built around 1450 at the height of the Inca Empire, but abandoned by the time the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1572.

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60% of the construction done at Machu Picchu was underground.

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