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Experts say tourists harm Machu Picchu


**  FILE  ** A group of foreign tourists look at a panoramic view of the Inca's citadel of Macchu Picchu, in Cuzco, Peru, in this March 26, 2008 file photo. Paolo Greer, a retired Alaska oil pipeline foreman, who has been digging through files in the United States and Peru for 30 years, said he has found maps and documents from the U.S. Library of Congress and several Peruvian archives showing that a German businessman had purchased land across from Machu Picchu in 1867, more than four decades before Hiram Bingham's rediscovery, and even set up a company to plunder the site.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)An influx of tourists to Peru's famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu may prompt UNESCO to add the jungle-shrouded ruins to its list of endangered World Heritage sites.





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