This Day in History - Hiram Bingham

Hiram Bingham III, an American archaeologist, was born on 1831 in Honolulu, Hawaii.  In 1882, He attended O'ahu College.  He left Honolulu in 1892 and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.   After much of his discoveries, he commenced his position as a U.S. Senate. He became a member of the Acacia Fraternity.  In 1901, Cusco explorers Gabino Sanchez, Agustine Lizarraga and Enrique Palma visited the site. In 1907, Bingham became a lecturer at Princeton University in South American History.  Bingham decided to implement archeology after discovering that there was a lost city in Peru. He discovered ancient artifacts at Machu Picchu in Peru, an ancient Inca settlement  on July 24th, 1911.  Machu Picchu is one of the top destinations for tourists in the world.  It is located close to other ancient pyramids. Bingham was not one of the first discoverers of the site.   Bingham went back to Peru to act as support of National Geographic Society and Yale University. Bingham wrote on the discoveries of his journey in the book "Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru." Peru has had archeological discoveries of over 40,000 artifacts hidden in the lost cities.

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