Lost City of the Incas (Phoenix Press) (49 page)
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Authors: Hiram Bingham
The Sacred Plaza from the South, showing the Principal Temple and the steps leading beyond it up to the Intihuatana. Steep terraces drop away to the river below.
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The Intihuatana of the Inca builders of Machu Picchu
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Excavating near the West Wall of the Principal Temple, 1912. George Eaton is on the extreme left.
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The first burial cave at Machu Picchu containing a human skull. The picture was taken after partial excavation, showing the skull still in place. In all, more than 100 such caves were opened and a large quantity of skeletal material secured
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A flashlight view of the interior of cave No 11, showing the osteologist, Dr Eaton, and his Indian helpers during the excavation of a human skeleton. The man at the right is a soldier kindly loaned to us by the Peruvian government to assist us in securing labourers
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The interior of one of the better houses in the East City has stone mortars, useful in the process of grinding corn or frozen potatoes, carved out of the ledge on which the house rests. In between the niches, just above the head of one of my Indian helpers, may be seen a roughly cylindrical block of stone bonded into the wall. It was customary in most Inca houses to have one of these stone pegs placed between each pair of niches. They served as useful hooks while the niches served as cupboards. Probably the pointed chicha jars, sometimes called aryballi, were hung from these stone pegs
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The Ancient Road leading into Machu Picchu
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A member of the expedition photographing Machu Picchu, 1912.
A Phoenix Paperbacks ebook
First published in Great Britain in 1952 by Phoenix House
This edition published in 2003 by Phoenix
Ebook first published in 2010 by Orion Books
This ebook published in 2011 by Orion Books
Lost City of the Incas © The Estate of Hiram Bingham 1952
Introduction © Hugh Thomson 2002
The right of Hiram Bingham to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
The right of Hugh Thomson to be identified as the author of the Introduction of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN: 978-0-2978-6533-9
The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Orion House
5 Upper Saint Martin’s Lane
London, WC2H 9EA
An Hachette UK company
www.orionbooks.co.uk
‘The Intihuatana of the Inca builders of Machu Picchu
.’
Excavating near the West Wall of the Principal Temple, 1912. George Eaton is on the extreme left.‘The first burial cave at Machu Picchu containing a human skull. The picture was taken after partial excavation, showing the skull still in place. In all, more than 100 such caves were opened and a large quantity of skeletal material secured
.’
‘A flashlight view of the interior of cave No 11, showing the osteologist, Dr Eaton, and his Indian helpers during the excavation of a human skeleton. The man at the right is a soldier kindly loaned to us by the Peruvian government to assist us in securing labourers
.’
‘The interior of one of the better houses in the East City has stone mortars, useful in the process of grinding corn or frozen potatoes, carved out of the ledge on which the house rests. In between the niches, just above the head of one of my Indian helpers, may be seen a roughly cylindrical block of stone bonded into the wall. It was customary in most Inca houses to have one of these stone pegs placed between each pair of niches. They served as useful hooks while the niches served as cupboards. Probably the pointed chicha jars, sometimes called aryballi, were hung from these stone pegs
.’
‘The Ancient Road leading into Machu Picchu
.’
A member of the expedition photographing Machu Picchu, 1912.A Phoenix Paperbacks ebook
First published in Great Britain in 1952 by Phoenix House
This edition published in 2003 by Phoenix
Ebook first published in 2010 by Orion Books
This ebook published in 2011 by Orion Books
Lost City of the Incas © The Estate of Hiram Bingham 1952
Introduction © Hugh Thomson 2002
The right of Hiram Bingham to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
The right of Hugh Thomson to be identified as the author of the Introduction of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN: 978-0-2978-6533-9
The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Orion House
5 Upper Saint Martin’s Lane
London, WC2H 9EA
An Hachette UK company
www.orionbooks.co.uk
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