LOST CITY The Discovery of Machu Picchu  Compiled by:  Terry Sams PES Terry Sams Terry Sams By Ted Lewin

Summary Professor Hiram Bingham goes on a journey to Peru to find the lost city of Machu Picchu. With the help of a farmer named Arteaga and a Quechua boy, Bingham finds something unexpected -- the beautiful city of Machu Picchu sitting among the clouds.

Question of the Week  What surprises can happen on an expedition?

Review Questions 1.Why might so few people have known about the ruins? 2.What might have happened before the boy had a dream about the stranger? 3.What did Bingham see after he found the sun temple? 4.Make a generalization about the Incas from what you have learned in this story. 5.Why did the author include the boy’s thoughts?

Review Questions 1. What did the boy call the camera? Why? 2.What is the main idea of the selection? 3.How was the author’s search for the ruins different from Bingham’s? 4.How would you describe the journey to Machu Picchu? 5.How are Cusco and the first capital of the Inca alike? Different?

Vocabulary - Say It  curiosity  glorious  ruins  granite  thickets  torrent  terraced

torrent  a violent, rushing stream of water

thickets  bushes or small trees growing close together

curiosity  an eager desire to know or learn

terraced formed into a flat, level land with steep sides; terraces are often made in hilly areas to create more space for farming

glorious  magnificent; splendid

ruins  what is left after a building, wall, etc., has fallen to pieces

granite  a very hard gray or pink rock that is formed when lava cools slowly underground

Archeologists have curiosity about people who lived long ago.

They had to cut their way through jungles with thickets full of dangerous animals.

Professor Bingham discovered the lost ruins of Machu Picchu.

What looks like rocks to us might be a glorious sight to a scientist.

The terraced fields on the side of the mountain were for growing crops.

Granite cliffs rose thousands of feet above the river.

They had to cross mountain rivers that fall in a raging torrent.

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