DENVER, CO, FEBRUARY 13, 2004 -Dick <cq> Foust <cq> and Karen <cq> Nutting <cq> of Colorado Springs examine Inca Artifacts while visiting the new interactive exhibition at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Machu Picchu : Unveiling the Mystery of the

DENVER, CO, FEBRUARY 13, 2004 -Dick <cq> Foust <cq> and Karen <cq> Nutting <cq> of Colorado Springs examine Inca Artifacts while visiting the new interactive exhibition at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Machu Picchu : Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas, on view from February 13 through May 9, 2004. (the artifacts in this photo were not actually found at Machu Picchu) (RELEASE****When the Inca Empire fell to the Spanish conquistadors in 1532, the city of Machu Picchu, high atop the Andes in Peru, was already abandoned. Except for the occasional local farmer, Machu Picchu was almost forgotten by the world for nearly four centuries until it was rediscovered virtually intact in 1911. You can experience the mysteries of this extraordinary pre-Columbian lost city, its people, its sacred rituals and the science of archaeology in a new interactive exhibition at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Machu Picchu : Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas, on view from February 13 through May 9, 2004, is the largest exhibition of Inca artifacts ever assembled in the United States and was organized by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (DENVER POST PHOTO BY CRAIG F. WALKER) 303 870 1894 (Photo By Craig F. Walker/The Denver Post via Getty Images)