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Machu Picchu the Untold Story
Machu Picchu The Untold Story
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Lizárraga |
Machu Picchu, the untold Story.
¿How’s that a single archaeological place took importance to the
Peruvian people and to the Universal History, changing the whole
History of humankind? The answer is in just one word: Machu
Picchu, sacred place, inaccessible to the foreign, but totally
accessible to the local natives, who for many years lived around
this ruins, and knowing or maybe not of the importance and
transcendence of the place.
Many anonymous people are situated on the pedestal of the Machu
Picchu discoverers, but are one of the many that stand out for
the rest, due to his contacts to his Alma Mater, Yale
University, this person in Hiram Bingham. Many things have been
told around the teacher with conquer soul, however there’s an
untold story behind the whole discover.
1909 is the year that Bingham came to Perú, arriving to
Choquequirao, known also as the Machu Picchu twin, he arrive
like an intuitive explorer, who were follow his instincts, and
reading the chroniclers about the unknown place, starts to
scoured the entire settlement.
1910 is another important year, because is the year that the PHD
Alberto Giesecke assumed the responsibility of lead the San
Antonio del Cusco University, just like Bingham, Giesecke was
North American, who in his 14 years of Rector impulse any kind
of archaeological projects and excavations.
The following year, 1911, the owner of the Echarati estate, Sr
Braulio Polo y la Borda, on the Convenciòn valley, had as a
guest the Dr. Giesecke, who has been told by the Sr. La Borda
that the entire place was full of archaeological sites, and
among the many sites, became very important Machu Picchu.
On his way back from the Convenciòn, Giesecke wrote to Bingham
about the things mentioned by Polo y la Borda, and that is the
reason why Bingham came to the archaeological site, reading many
chroniclers and travelers diaries, like the one who wrote
Charles Wienner, he was the first to talk about Machu Picchu on
his description of Perú and the indigenes populations, diary
that has the date of 1880, he also made around 20 street plans
and 30 letters.
Wienner was on the zone around the year 1876, compiling the
information that the local gave to him to include on his maps
the names of Machu and Huayna Picchu.
With all the required information enough to arrive to the
archaeological sites, Bingham obtain a scientific commission,
sponsored by the Yale University, arriving to the Sanctuary
before July 1911, month and year of the discover. Many of these
scientists went through many sites of Cusco.
On July 1911, Bingham arrive to the Vilcabamba valley, leading
by Melchor Arteaga, who take Bingham through San Miguel to Machu
Picchu, arriving to a thick and wooded jungle with some building
that cannot be seeing by Bingham, who had a machete on his hand
and walk through the entire place, and think that this is where
Manco Inca lived and fight against the Spanish conquers.
Now, we have to back to the year 1902, and exactly July 14th of
1902, date so important to all the Peruvian citizens, the real
discover of Machu Picchu, and his name was Agustín Lizárraga,
who in the mentioned year, conformed an expedition with his
cousin, Enrique Palma Ruíz, who at the time was the
administrator of the Collpani Estate; Gabino Sánchez and his
agricultural laborer Toribio Recharte, all of them were in
search of places to harvest.
At the time that he arrived, he watch the whole Machu Picchu
Sanctuary, and he was aware that he found an amazing and
breathtaking site, reaching the point that Agustín Lizárraga
leave an inscription in the temple of the three windows, that
said: Agustín Lizárraga, July 14th 1902. Date that the same
Bingham found and wrote on his book.
In 1903 Lizárraga starts with the corn and other vegetables
plantations, leaving his laborer with his family, and 4 years
later, in 1907, another person came to the place: Anacleto
Álvarez, also with his family.
1904 was the year that Lizárraga began the travel with another
family, The Ochoa`s, from the Collpani Estate, along with his
Estate workers.
¿Why is that Hiram Bingham became the so called discover of
Machu Picchu and gain notoriety to all newspapers and scientific
reviews? : According with the French explorer Simone Waisbard,
on her book called ¨Machu Picchu Mysteries¨ said that Lizárraga
was a well connoisseur of the zone; he was who mentioned all the
information about Machu Picchu.
Alfred Bingham, Bingham´s son, on his book called ¨Portrait of
an explorer¨, mentioned that His father erased all kind of
Lizárraga´s reference, and many pictures took by the same
Bingham, who realized that not many of the constructions were
cover by the thick vegetation were not included on his
annotations and finals conclusions.
One of the things that caught the attention of many people who
studied the site, even Bingham’s son, found that in one of the
book that his father carries with him, is written that ¨ Agustín
Lizárraga was the real discoverer of Machu Picchu; he lives on
the San Miguel Bridge¨.
The mass media played an important role on mentioned that
Bingham was the only discoverer of Machu Picchu, even the
National Geographic made an article of Bingham, remain by the
eyes of the world as the only and real discoverer. Is true that
Bingham was the systematic and well positioned person who
studied Machu Picchu, because of him is that Machu Picchu is
known by the entire world, but another true is that he wasn’t
the real discoverer of Machu Picchu.
These 2 peoples, Agustín Lizárraga and Hiram Bingham, who had
nothing in common, the first, a simple farmer with an incipient
knowledge of History and Archaeology, and The second, a
well-respected teacher who had everything to be able to
organized an expedition and surround by the best professionals,
got together in this amazing discover, that changed their lifes,
and change the course of everything that we know about one of
the most and important civilizations of all time: The Incas and
his Tahuantinsuyo Empire.
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