{"id":6190,"date":"2026-07-24T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6190"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:21:11","slug":"machu-picchu-was-discovered-by-hiram-bingham-in-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6190","title":{"rendered":"Machu Picchu Was Discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6753\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6753\" class=\"wp-image-6753 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Machu_Picchu_early_morning-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Machu_Picchu_early_morning\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Machu Picchu<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911<\/strong>. Built around 1450 high in the Andes, the \u201cLost City of the Incas\u201d was probably built for their leader Pachacuti. Bingham, a historian from Yale University, was looking for another city when a local guide brought him to Machu Piccu. The area was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/274<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911. Built around 1450 high in the Andes, the \u201cLost City of the Incas\u201d was probably built for their leader Pachacuti. Bingham, a historian from Yale University, was looking for another city when a local guide brought him to Machu Piccu. The area was made a UNESCO <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6190' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4510,837,836,5738,838,835],"class_list":["post-6190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4510","tag-andes","tag-hiram-bingham","tag-july-24","tag-lost-city-of-the-incas","tag-machu-picchu","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6190"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29579,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions\/29579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}