with great temples and precious metals. Rumor had it
| According to rumor, when did the Lost City of the
were hundreds of miles of dense wilderness to conceal
it. Chances were good that no outsider would ever find
that the Lost City was hidden somewhere in the thick ,
Still, the man was determined to try. His name u
Part /
Incas exist?
the Incas, which people had whispered about f
5
it.
was Hiram Bingham. Bingham, who was a professor
and historian from Yale University, was excited by tha
story of the Lost City. When the Spanish had arrived
in Peru in the 1530s, they had quickly taken over the
Inca capital of Cuzco. The leader of the Incas had flei
into the mountains with his followers. Somewhere on a
remote mountainside, it was said, he and his three sons
had set up another city, filled with the silver and gold
they had brought with them. Their dynasty supposedly
= he and his three sons
= his followers
had ruled from there for 35 more years.
