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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...