Machu Pichu Imagine standing atop an ancient mountain fortress, your entire family’s eyes wide with wonder, mist dancing ...

The structures are built with precision, using a technique known as ashlar, where stones are cut to fit together ... a sacred relic within Machu Picchu. This carved stone pillar is believed ...

Machu Picchu. What Bingham saw was a dramatic and towering citadel of stone cut from escarpments. Fashioned by men without mortar, the stones fit so tightly together that not even a knife's blade ...

Although the reconstructed temples are the most impressive buildings, Machu Picchu’s most important structure is the Intihuatana or “hitching post of the sun,” a mysterious abstract stone ...

Inca mastery of landscape and environment is epitomised at Machu Picchu, their most famous ruin ... When the landscape proved too inhospitable for stone, they used straw, constructing beautiful ...