But with each flake of dust removed, Dr. Michele Koons grew certain she was about to see something unique."We knew that this site had so much to offer," said Koons, curator of archaeology at the ...
Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 meters above sea level in southern Peru, where the Andes and the Amazon Basin ...