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Atlas of Wonder

Peru · Americas

Machu Picchu

Cloud city of the Inca above the Urubamba.

MixedInscribed 1983

The Story

Cradled by emerald peaks and morning mist, the lost city of the Inca rises in tiered stone. Built without mortar in the fifteenth century, it endured five hundred years of forest until rediscovery returned it to the world.

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