The ruins look amazingly mysterious and even more ancient shrouded in the pre-dawn fog, imagining that anything could be discovered just beyond your sight.
The cloud forest that hid this place for nearly four centuries still presses in at the edges. The site wasn't hiding — the forest was just doing what forests do. Four centuries of that, and the Spanish never knew. © McKay Savage from London, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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