"The conquest of the Titicaca Basin was the jewel in the crown of the Inca Empire," says Charles Stanish ... and full skirts were inspired by the Spanish. If provinces mounted resistance, Inca ...

Now, the long-accepted account of a swift Spanish conquest of the Inca—achieved with guns, steel, and horses—is being replaced by a more complete story based on surprising new evidence ...

Steeped in death, conquest ... a fabulous Inca hoard hidden from Spanish conquistadors. The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving ...

Stretching along the crest of a narrow ridge lay the mesmerizing embodiment of the Inca Empire, a civilization brought to an abrupt and bloody end by the Spanish conquest of the 1500s. On either ...

Machu Picchu was neither the capital of the Inca empire nor the main destination ... and took them back” to Cuzco during the Spanish conquest. Machu Picchu’s monumental stones, some weighing ...

By Gwynne Dyer – Friday, 13 August, is the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The capital of the Aztec empire ... Then an exiled Inca ex-monarch in Cuba has his men reverse ...

The Inca Empire encompassed mountains ... the Keshwa Chaca bridge – which is still in use today. After the Conquest, the Spanish quickly imposed their own religion on the Empire.

Over less than a century, the Inca Empire rose to prominence as the pre-Columbian Americas’ greatest empire before falling to civil war, European diseases, and the Spanish conquest beginning in ...

It's hard to believe this iconic "lost city of the Incas" was untouched during the Spanish conquest ... granite stone that may have served as the Inca's calendar. Continue on to the Temple ...

Now, the long-accepted account of a swift Spanish conquest of the Inca—achieved with guns, steel, and horses—is being replaced by a more complete story based on surprising new evidence ...