London 11 a.m. Thursday June 6th:

The Royal Geographical Society announced today that a major new Inca site has been discovered in Peru by a group of British and American explorers.

The discovery of the site, called Cota Coca, comes just months after the National Geographic announced the discovery of another ‘lost city’. However the constructed area of this new site is over twice as big and in a far better stage of preservation.

John Hemming, an international authority on the Incas and a previous Director of the Royal Geographical Society, commented: "This is an important discovery.”