On July 24, 1911 Hiram Bignham III, re-discovered MACHU PICCHU. He was the head of the Yale Peruvian Expedition. His book LOST CITY OF THE INCAS became a bestseller. He became a US senator, and has often been cited as the basis for the Indiana Jones character.
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