{"id":18764,"date":"2022-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=18764"},"modified":"2022-10-03T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:37:50","slug":"why-is-it-called-machu-picchu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/2022\/09\/29\/why-is-it-called-machu-picchu\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it called Machu Picchu?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q&A<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

Why is it called Machu Picchu?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
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PICKING THE PICCHU<\/strong> The Incan wonder of Machu Picchu, with Huayna Picchu in the background. Hiram Bingham (below<\/em>) had to pick which name to use<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\u2022 <\/span>SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

The Incan citadel was named for a mountain, but was it the right mountain? <\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>LONG ANSWER<\/span> <\/h5>\n\n

High up in the Andes of Peru, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu remained hidden from the Spanish conquerors and unknown, largely, to westerners until 1911. That was when local farmer Melchor Arteaga showed the way to an American professor and explorer named (nope, not Indiana Jones) Hiram Bingham, introducing the mysterious site as Machu Picchu.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The name means \u2018old peak\u2019 in Quechua, the language of the Incas and still spoken by millions of people today, in reference to one of the two mountains that ruler Pachacuti\u2019s mid-15th century royal retreat sits between. Bingham started using it in his field notes, and so did newspaper reports of his \u2018discovery\u2019 and subsequent excavations.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

New research, however, published in 2022 in \u00d1awpa <\/em>Pacha: <\/em>Journal <\/em>of <\/em>Andean <\/em>Archaeology <\/em>suggests the Inca themselves would not have known the citadel as Machu Picchu. Instead, they likely chose the name of the other mountain, Huayna Picchu (\u2018young peak\u2019), or just Picchu. Apparently, Bingham was told both options, but for some reason the old beat the new and Machu Picchu stuck. But as they\u2019re both Quechuan and each refers to one of the mountains at the site, this research is unlikely to bring about an official name change. <\/p>\n\n

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