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Letter: You're wrong part 1

Published 31 March 2001

From Gregory Deyermenjian

The ancient city of Machu Picchu was neither a “stronghold” nor was it the
“last refuge of the Inca empire after it was overrun by Spanish conquistadores
in the 16th century”
(10 March, p 20).
The inclusion of these long-discredited
notions in your article may distract from the credibility of your more immediate
message that it is in danger of being destroyed by landslides.

Watertown, Massachusetts

Issue no. 2284 published 31 March 2001

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