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One of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, the citadel, hidden by clouds 8,000 feet above sea level, has become a pilgrimage for hundreds of thousands of travellers every year. Historians have always thought that it lay undiscovered for centuries after the fall of the Incan Empire in the 1530s, until being brought to the attention of the modern world by an American explorer, Hiram Bingham, in 1911. But a research team including a British scientist believe that “the lost city of the Incas” could have been “discovered” more than four decades previously, by a German adventurer who looted the site with the help of the Peruvian government.”*
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