Museo Machu Picchu, Peru: The Cusco museum with clues to the mystery of Machu Picchu

By Isobel King
January 23 2016 - 12:15am
The ancient city was abandoned, virtually intact, around 1540. Photo: Jess Kraft
The ancient city was abandoned, virtually intact, around 1540. Photo: Jess Kraft
Shrouded in mystery: Machu Picchu, Peru. Photo: iStock
Shrouded in mystery: Machu Picchu, Peru. Photo: iStock

Much like the dense forest cloud that envelops Machu Picchu on our early September visit, the citadel and its history remain largely shrouded in mystery. The Inca had no system of writing and left no written records, so theories and hypothesis fill the vacuum that archaeologists struggle to explain.

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