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Machu Picchu
Focus How did the Incas build Machu Picchu Machu Picchu is an Inca
in the mountains?
e.g. They brought stones from city of stone buildings. It
somewhere else. sits about 2,430 meters
above sea level in the Andes Mountains of Peru. It is
now one of the most important archaeological places in
the world. It is also considered one of the world’s
n. something that cannot be explained
greatest mysteries. It was never found by the Spanish
mysteries
conquerors in the 1500s. That is why it is sometimes
called the “lost city of the Incas.”
Unit 8 | Machu Picchu
