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Police Reportedly Fire Tear Gas at Machu Picchu Protesters
Tourism workers are challenging a new ticket policy that could affect the livelihoods of travel guides and other industry workers.
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Machu Picchu Indefinitely Closed Amid Political Protests
Hundreds of visitors were evacuated from the Incan site over the weekend.
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An Awe-Inspiring Experience of Machu Picchu
A show of over 200 Inca objects and a VR expedition will debut at the Boca Raton Museum in South Florida, a hub of Peruvian heritage in the US.
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Notre-Dame and Machu Picchu Join List of World’s Most Endangered Monuments
The World Monuments Watch includes 25 at-risk sites facing encroaching urbanization, political turmoil, natural disaster, and violent conflicts.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: two tourists were arrested for taking naked pictures at Machu Picchu, a Snapchat post led police to a stolen sculpture, and ancient Mesopotamian artifacts were found at a refugee camp in Slovenia.