The story is a year old, but the link still works.
But now you have to post the update. ;)
Heh... I just discovered a garage in my back yard! Uh, I was aware of the front of it, and in fact used to park my car inside the garage at one time...Llactapata:they admit that the archaeologist Hiram Bingham found "the main part of the site" back in 1912, and the report gives a brief summary of Bingham's work there. Also in the report--but not mentioned in the press release--are more recent trips to the site: in 1982 by Hugh Thomson and in 1985 by mountaineer-archaeologist Johan Reinhard. Turns out the 1982 visitors mapped part of the site, but not the same area mapped by Bingham (yes, Bingham published a map of part of the site). Reinhard (1985) mapped a large structure at the site. So the location of the "lost" site was not unknown to Thomson (unless he forgot it since 1982), nor was the extent of the site entirely unexpected since three disparate sections of it had already been mapped.
A Big Inca Discovery, or Not?
by Mark Rose
November 18, 2003
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