The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

The lost treasure of the Incas The Lost Treasure of the Incas, also known as the Treasure of Atahualpa, refers to the enormous wealth accumulated by the Inca Empire before the Spanish conquest.

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres ... but at the same time there was a problem between groups. One was Atahualpa’s group, and the other was Huascar’s. So there was an internal ...

Driven by a desire for wealth, Pizarro captured and executed the Incan emperor Atahualpa, despite receiving a ransom of gold and silver. His conquest led to the collapse of the Incan civilisation ...

By the time of the Inca civilization, which lasted from approximately 1100 to 1500 A.D., the Andean tradition of preserving the dead was still intact. Most Inca mummies were arranged in the ...

They quickly found a small amount of pottery dating to just before the time the Spanish invaded Peru, when the Inca ruled this part of it. There were also other signs it could be an Inca site.

Inca ruler Huayna Capac (1493-1527), for instance, passed power not only to his son Huáscar, whose mother was Capac's wife and sister, but also to his son Atahualpa, whose mother was apparently a ...

Dead for 500 years, this Inca sacrificial mummy found on Chile's El Plomo Peak has opened the door to further inquiry into the strange and mysterious ritual life of the Inca. There may be hundreds ...

One of the first churched they built was San Francisco de Quito – constructed on top of the palace of the last undisputed Inca leader, Atahualpa. In a two part series, Dr Jago Cooper travels ...