Sometime after 1400, one of the greatest Inca rulers, Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui, began planning his conquest of the south. It was the dawn of empire. Massed on a high, cold Peruvian plain north of ...

whom he was able to determine were killed at one of the most famous battles of the conquest, the Siege of Lima. This battle has conventionally been portrayed as the brave rout of a vast Inca army ...

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

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 ...

The article examines the enduring fascination with lost, stolen, or hidden treasures that have captivated people for ...

This Indian representation of Inca royalty dates back to 1800. Notice their gold crowns bear the emblem of the sun. The Incas believed gold was the sweat of the sun, which they worshipped.

Then an exiled Inca ex-monarch in Cuba has his men reverse ... Not much in history is inevitable, but the conquest of the Americas was. It might have been done by the Chinese or the Muslims ...

It's hard to believe this iconic "lost city of the Incas" was untouched during the Spanish conquest. The Incas cleverly obscured these 12 acres of temples, aqueducts and gardens from the Spaniards ...

Over less than a century, the Inca Empire rose to prominence as the pre-Columbian Americas’ greatest empire before falling to ...

Heroes of Might and Magic inspired Songs of Conquest, one of this year's best strategy games, just received an essential new ...