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Acclaimed author Mark Adams not only visited the ancient ruins of the cloud-ringed city of Machu Picchu in Peru — he attempted to recreate the trek of the man commonly credited with rediscovering it, the Indiana Jones-style Yale University professor Hiram Bingham, who came upon the city on July 24, 1911. He sat down with LIFE.com recently to guest edit a gallery about Machu Picchu’s greatest mysteries…
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