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  • 1. BUY KIM MACQUARRIE'S LATEST BOOK, "THE LAST DAYS OF THE INCAS"
  • 2. An interview w/Kim MacQuarrie (Geographic Expeditions' Recce Magazine)
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  • 3a. "Peru's Amazonian Eden: Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve": A book I did with the great natural history photographer Andre Bärtschi
  • 4. "Where the Andes Meet the Amazon": Another book I did with Andre Bärtschi on Peru's Bahuaja-Sonene (Tambopata) and Bolivia's Madidi National Parks
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  • 6. "Spirits of the Rainforest"--My first Emmy-winning feature doc on Peru for the Discovery Channel. Watch it here.
  • 7. "The Living Edens: Manu"--Another Emmy-winning film I made on Manu National Park, in Peru. Watch it here.
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 Machu Picchu Centennial Likely To Lack Yale Artifacts
 
An Incan “aryballo” pot discovered at Machu Picchu
Yale Daily News
May 13, 2010
 With the 100th anniversary of Hiram Bingham’s discovery of the Inca archeological treasure Machu Picchu approaching, Peru’s Chamber of Tourism is preparing to celebrate — but without many of the site’s most precious artifacts, […]

 
You’re invited to an Evening with author and filmmaker Kim MacQuarrie & Writer/Editor Don George
Tuesday February 23rd, 7pm
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister Street, San Francisco
Please be our guest as Don George and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Kim MacQuarrie take the stage for a globe-roaming conversation about indigenous peoples around the world, […]

 
Hiram Bingham at Machu Picchu in 1912
Bingham Didn’t Dig Up The Yale Huacos –He Just Bought Them
August 6, 2009
Caretas

By Nicholas Asheshov
Here in Urubamba Hiram Bingham’s reputation has taken a knock in the run-up to the centennial of the discovery in 1911 of Machu Picchu.
The revisionists are saying that Bingham was not just a persistent […]

(Above: The Torreón at Machu Picchu is a tower built around a stone that still has a carved groove in it. Once a year, the groove is illuminated as the rising sun shines through one window each June solstice. The window also frames the Pleiades constellation, which was used by the Incas to decide when […]

 
(Note: Rock art in Peru is fairly common, due to the thousands of years that humans have inhabited the area. While images of the presumed, pigment-based Machu Picchu “painting” have not yet been released, above is one of many petroglyphs that exist in the Majes Valley in Southern Peru, about 1oo miles nw of Arequipa. […]

 

The Frozen Mummy of an Inca Girl Found On Top Of A Mountain In Argentina In 1999
 
 (Note: Readers of this blog will recall that a German adventurer, Augusto R. Berns, claimed to have discovered a cave full of Inca mummies on a piece of property he…

 
(Above: Francisco Pizarro seizes the Inca Emperor Atahualpa in 1533. Although the emperor turned over a large ransom in gold and silver in exchange for being set free, Pizarro murdered him anyway).
Machu Picchu: Known and Unknown, There and Not There

(Originally published in Spanish in Peru in La Republica, Aug 31, 2008. The Spanish version […]

An Interview with Paolo Greer (Part 3)
(To read Part 2, click here)
19) In what year did you find Augusto Berns’ “promotional materials” in Peru’s National Library?

PG: You are referring to the collection of Berns’ papers I mentioned in my article for the South American Explorer…

An Antiquities Gallery within the Ethnological Museum of Berlin
SOMOS
(El Comercio)
July 12, 2008
By Dr. Federico Camino Macedo
(Translated by Kim MacQuarrie)
The article in SOMOS 1125 [June 28, 2008, in El Comercio] referred to José Macedo as an ignorant criminal who colluded with the German August R Berns in the sacking, looting, and commercialization of the treasures […]

An Interview With Paolo Greer
Part 1
Note: Recently, a number of stories have emerged in the press alleging that a German adventurer and businessman, Augusto R. Berns, discovered and/or looted Machu Picchu decades before Hiram Bingham arrived at the now famous Inca site in 1911. The stories, for the most part, owe their origin to a […]

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