It was “founded” the 24th of July of 1911 by the northamerican explorer Hiram Birgham. Bingham studied too much about thelegends of the llacta of Victos or Viticos. The last refugee of the rebeld Incas to the Spaniards in the Vilcabamba jungle. In 1906 he travels by the way Buenos Aires=Cusco. When he arrives to Cusco he has a big interest to the Inca City (Vitcos) and the Vilcabamba valley. There he was informed that there was a “lost” cityon the mountain.
He returns to the USA happily for the discovery to have more money for the continuing with its exploration and he had the helpness of the National Geographic Society and the yale university. Many friends and parents also help him with the funds.
On January 1911, Mr. Braulio Polo y la Borda, owners of the farm Echarati,located in Mandor, La Convencion, Cusco. Giescke who knew Bingham plans writed him telling about this. One important thing in 1880 “Perou et Bolivie. Recit de Voyage, survi d’etudes archaeologiques et etnografhiques et des notes sur léscriture el las lengues des population indiennes”. With a map of Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu.
On 1911 Bingham comes to Vilcabamba valley and hires the services of the guide Melchor Arteaga. The 24th of july they arrive to the top of the mountain called Macu Picchu.
Atfer this first contact with Machu Picchu, Bingham talks with Giesecke who tells this event to Jose Cosio, secretary of the University San Antonio Abad of Cusco. This last one communicated with Enrique Palma, who said that has visited this place 10 years ago (1902). He said he had to pay 12 Soles de Oro to the owner of th Hacienda Cutija. On 1912 the owners of that places were Mr and Mrs Arteaga y Lizarraga, the first one was the person who guided Bingham on 1911.
When Mach Picchu was founded, Bingham hires in the USA some archeologusts and anthropologists to excave the place. The objects founded were delivered to the USA, by the allowance of the Peruvian Government. At the end of 1911 there was an insurrection of Mollendo, because they didn´t want the archeological objects get out of the country On 1912 this events were repeated, including the cities of Puno, Arequipa and Mollendo.