The Inca Garcilaso Medal is celebrated in Miami, honoring cultural heritage, art, and education while recognizing influential ...

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 ...

Red carries profound symbolism in Inca mythology ... The cochineal insect was brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadors in the 15th century, and held a worth akin to gold and silver.

Carhua was a ten-year old Inca child whose father offered her ... written accounts of the ritual are chronicles written by Spanish conquistador historians. From the chronicles and from each ...

How much of a fact is that? ~ McLan Answer: The Incas were actually one of a large number of tribal groups living in Peru at the time of the Spanish conquest. All of the Indians in the Inca empire ...

the last capital of Inca resistance against the Spanish invaders. Colossal strangler figs have taken root atop ruined doorways. Crumbling yellow paint coats the walls. Decades after the conquistadors ...

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 ...

A statue of the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro has been reinstalled in the centre of Lima, the capital of Peru, more than 20 years after it had been removed. The sculpture was unveiled during ...

Effigy of soldier who conquered Peru after slaughtering the Incas reinstated in heart of city – but indigenous people brand it an ‘insult’ A statue of a Spanish conquistador has ...

A statue of the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro has been ... Pizarro founded Lima in 1535 after defeating the Inca Empire and claiming their lands for the Spanish crown.