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At 7,970 feet or 2,430 meters above sea level in the Andes Mountains is Machu Picchu. A symbol of the Incan Empire and built around 1450AD. According to scholars, Machu Picchu was a royal estate built for the Inca king Pachacutec around 1450. Others speculate the Inca city was a sacred center where the great political, religious and economic minds of the Inca Empire gathered. The population of Machu Picchu ranged between 300-1000 inhabitants and consisted mostly of members of Pachacutec’s lineage, religious elite, and highly specialized artisans recruited from across the empire, called yanaconas. On July 24, 1911, Hiram Bingham climbed to the top of a mountain ridge in Peru and encountered one of the most extraordinary sets of ruins on Earth: Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu, Peru - 2018
