Was Machu Picchu really lost?
Updated on 10 December 2008
The politics of discovering Machu Picchu surface a hundred years after the lost city of the Incas was found. More4 News reports.
Founded by the Incas in the fifteenth century, abandoned shortly after, and found 100 years ago by an American adventurer - but was Machu Picchu ever really lost?
Back in the golden age of adventure, discovering lost cities was the ultimate accomplishment for a western explorer.
And they didn't come much better than the Inca city of Machu Picchu in Peru. But now doubt is being cast about whether the man credited with finding it actually did.
