{"id":27798,"date":"2022-04-04T17:09:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27798"},"modified":"2022-04-04T17:10:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:10:28","slug":"have-you-ever-visited-or-wanted-to-visit-the-peruvian-site-of-machu-picchu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27798","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever visited &#8211; or wanted to visit &#8211; the Peruvian site of Machu Picchu?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2022\/mar\/23\/machu-picchu-inca-site-wrong-name\">this recent article<\/a> explains, a new academic paper argues that, since its rediscovery in 1911, the site has been known by the wrong name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>A Peruvian historian and a leading US archaeologist argue that the UNESCO world heritage site was known by its Inca inhabitants as Huayna Picchu \u2013 the name of a peak overlooking the ruins \u2013 or simply Picchu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2001, I had the pleasure of visiting Machu Picchu and spending a night there. You can read about my time at the historic site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/SouthAmerica.html#MachuPicchu\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as this recent article explains, a new academic paper argues that, since its rediscovery in 1911, the site has been known by the wrong name. A Peruvian historian and a leading US archaeologist argue that the UNESCO world heritage site was known by its Inca inhabitants as Huayna Picchu \u2013 the name of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27798"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27803,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798\/revisions\/27803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}