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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Spanish-Peruvian writer and historian stands ... and perhaps the best known is the so-called 'Real Commentaries of the Incas', a literary historical book that had its first publication in ...

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 ...

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 ...