Hiram Bingham III (1875-1956)

“Few romances can ever surpass that of the granite citadel on top of the beetling precipices of Machu Picchu, the crown of Inca Land.” -Bingham

Once upon a time, when I studied archaeology, my academic world was divided into two distinct groups: Diggers and Squints.

Squints worked in laboratories with elaborate machines that were known by esoteric terminology and were so complicated that they looked like sparky whirligigs from old "Frankenstein" movies. Squints would take items of great antiqui…