The archaeologist Hiram Bringhan is spoken of as the discoverer of Machu Picchu, but what we know little is that the first to arrive at this citadel was the Peruvian farmer Agustín Lizárraga, Bringhan says that on July 24 he entered an enclosure through a light drizzle, and suddenly he realized the discovery he was making that was Machu Picchu, but it is known that Bringhan arrives at this place after 9 years and that the real discoverer is the Peruvian Agustín Lizárraga, so in the year 1956, a 06 June died this character in Washington, who went down in history as the discoverer of Machupicchu, but years ago Lizárraga, already left a record of his existence and who he was.
Well, Bringhan was a history professor at Yale University, he was born in Honolulu (Hawaii) in 1875, and he did a doctorate at Harvard, where he worked as a history professor, in 1989 he got married to Alfreda Mitchell and with her He became a wealthy American family, and it is said that his wife's family came to finance some of his expeditions, which is why in November 1906 Bringhan was a patriotic in his expedition to write a biography of Simon Bolivar by following the route between caracas and Bogotá, which he never did, and which was organized for an archaeological expedition that was to find Vilcabamba, the lost city of the Incas, a secret fortress used by the Incas against the invasion of the Spaniards, but the chronic indications gave that it was near the city of Cusco, and that Bringhan would not be afraid to climb mountains that this expedition could take shape, and so it was that after When climbing Mount Coropuna of 6595 meters, he was the first to reach the top, and as we already mentioned, it was on June 24 that Bringhan went to the ruins of Machupicchu, but then he had to leave the place, then return three Years later, convinced that the place where he was, belonged to the lost city of the Incas, after the investigations that he carried out of the place, he had to wait until the twentieth century, so that his assumptions were taken seriously, Bringhan also accepted that the Cusco landowner was the first to visit the Inca citadel as indicated by his third son Alfred M. Bringhan, when he discovered in his father's notebook that he indicated those words about Liz He said, and that he lived in the town of San Miguel, and another thing that I reveal was that, on one of the walls of the three windows of the citadel there was an inscription that said Austin Lizárraga July 14, 1902, also adds that after Of the first trip that Lizárraga made, he went again on the same route of the 1902 expedition, but this time, he did it in the rainy season which did not favor him since when trying to cross the Urubamba river to climb to the heights of Machupicchu , the turbulence of the water dragged him and his body could never be found, so what remains to be mentioned is that on July 24, 1911 Bringhan discovers the citadel of Machupicchu, an expedition with courage and firmness of this person and that he is always continuous , putting many times his life in danger, then there is a lot of history in the life of this person, but what stands out in the end is that it was Bringhan and his work, "the lost city of the Incas", who unveiled the city Machupicchu city to the world.
