Back then, the Spanish were blessed with bravado, while the Aztecs and Incas were cursed with naiveté. The conquistadors arrived in Mexico and Peru in ridiculously small numbers—a few hundred ...

Spanish forces arrived in the Andes in the 1530s and finally conquered the Incas after a 40-year struggle. The Incas had no cows, sheep, pigs, chickens or goats. Their only domesticated animals ...

Some archaeologists believe that the Inca mummified all their dead, not just the elite. When the Spanish conquered the Inca in the 1500's and 1600's, they forbade the practice of mummification ...

Spanish forces arrived in the Andes in the 1530s and finally conquered the Incas after a 40-year struggle. The Incas had no cows, sheep, pigs, chickens or goats. Their only domesticated animals ...

Thousands of years earlier the pre-Incas were able to plot its location ... long before the arrival of the Spanish colonisers. They may have had a greater understanding of the cosmos and the ...

The cochineal insect was brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadors in the 15th century, and held a worth akin to gold and silver. It strengthened Spain's economic influence, provided support for ...

Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates mountain range between the Andes and the Amazon is said to exist a fabulous Inca hoard hidden from Spanish conquistadors. The legend begins in the ...

where the Incas fought their last stand against Spanish conquistadors. When led in 1911 to Machu Picchu's ruins with the assistance of local guides, Bingham believed he'd found it at last.

Read the full text of Cabeza de Vaca's book, "Relacion," here as well. The Conquistadors' quest for gold wasn't the last gold rush in the New World. Visit this site to read about the pioneers and ...

Today you can’t be so sure. Today the bluebells in our woods are just as likely to be the Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica) or, even more confusingly, a fertile hybrid between the British ...