Machu Picchu is an old Inca

history channel documentary Machu Picchu (Peru): Machu Picchu is an old Inca "city" roosted high on an edge between two blustery slopes, well mountains really, some almost 8000 feet above ocean level in the high Andes. The "city" was worked on this extremely steep, tough and rather difficult to reach double mountain edge and not even the Spanish Conquest ever known about or found it. Evidently the best figure is that it was built as a kind of "Summer White House" for the Inca head (however no one knows for supreme beyond any doubt and there are elective thoughts). Given the area and territory, it's not really a perfect spot to assemble a 'city', particularly when the Inca Empire controlled tremendous measures of significantly more reasonable area to pick and pick a "Late spring White House" for their dear pioneer. There's something somewhat odd concerning why Machu Picchu was implicit the primary spot at gigantic expense and exertion, heaps of enormous stone pieces must be cut, transported and hurled into spot, yet fabricated it was. Be that as it may, it was deserted to the components only somewhat over a hundred years after the fact. Go figure! Why?