We May Have Been Calling Machu Picchu The Wrong Name For Over 100 Years. One of the most famous archaeological sites in the world may be named after a simple misunderstanding.

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 24 MARCH 2022 | CARLY CASSELLA

[Openurmind]

“Who cares?”

What authority gives you the assumed right to speak for me?

[dsrtsage]

“ I used to think it was called Macho Grande.”

Hey watch it, buddy. Obscure movie references are totally my bag

[Cold Heart]

Squaw Mountain is available

[Bob434]

Hmm I didn’t know that. Maybe I’ll use that whenever someone asks me something I don’t know the answer to lol

[Red Badger]

There are different versions of the legend............

[GingisK]

It certainly was. Then the communists renamed it.

[Mr. K]

I’ll never be over Macho Grande

[Bob434]

Well I kangaroo about that, but will use it anyways lol

[discostu]

This happens all the time. A lot of cultures weren’t as into naming everything as Europeans. That’s how we wind up with stuff like Tucson’s Rillito River (rillito being Spanish for little river). I imagine it was some explorer asking a local “what do you call that?” “what the little river?” “ree-ee-to, thanks”.

[GaltAdonis]

No. His brother LLeroy.....

[Red Badger]

Fernando?..............

[seowulf]

Machu Picchu means Old Peak.

Huayna Picchu means Young Peak.

And the Inca probably didn't call it either.

[Openurmind]

True, things get lost to time because no one cared. lol

[JimRed]

Anybody remember when the capital of China was Peking? (/s)

Yep, and Peiping, too.

[Fightin Whitey]

We need Larry Lucido for the graphics here.

A little sampling of the fabric freshener etc. etc.

lol

[scrabblehack]

I guess we can look forward to Taibei then.
Taipei = “North Taiwan” in Chinese;
“Peking” = “North Capital” in Chinese, now rendered as Beijing.

The -yama ending means “Mount” in Japanese, no?
People still say “Mount Fujiyama” and on Ninja Warrior, “Mount Midoriyama.”

[Mount Athos]

when the local chief was asked what the peak was called, he sneezed and said piccu.

mACHU! piccu.

Changing the name forever

[packrat35]

I’ll never get over macho Grande!

[Albion Wilde]

Pardon the thread highjacking, but the most ludicrous historical "misunderstanding" in recent memory was the doofus leftists kneeling in the Capitol for George Floyd wearing Kente Cloths.

Kente Cloth Worn By Democrats Was ‘Historically Worn’ By African Empire Involved In Slave Trade...

[CJ Wolf]

No. It was nacho libre’