Machu Picchu was built around 1450 CE, less than 50 years before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World.
The stones at Machu Picchu fit so tightly together that not even a knife’s blade could fit between them.
Machu Picchu wasn’t known to the world until a Yale Professor , Hiram Bingham, re-discovered it in 1911.
Nude tourism is a recent trend in Machu Picchu. People caught in the act are fined, deported and even banned from visiting the country.
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.