Eight months later, they executed their royal captive, and in 1533 their leader, Francisco Pizarro, picked a young prince, Manco Inca Yupanqui, to rule as a puppet king. In the far distance ...

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

Pizarro agreed to release Atahualpa in return for a roomful of gold, but the Spaniard later reneged on the deal. He had the Inca king put to death before the last and largest part of the ransom ...

A new study reveals the most complex numeric connection ever made between two khipus. It could help lead us to even more ...

This battle has conventionally been portrayed as the brave rout of a vast Inca army by a handful of wily and determined conquistadors commanded by Pizarro. Cock's discoveries pointed in the ...

Inca territory was divided into quarters ... By 1532, Peru was conquered by Spaniard Francisco Pizarro, and in 1567, Alvarez Maldonado claimed the Manu river and surrounding regions for Spain.

And he has made Pizarro eventually a more sympathetic character ... which can open to form a twelve-rayed golden Incan sun and reveal a raised acting area behind. This sun is so constructed ...

Pedro Pizarro, president and CEO of Edison International, has spoken about the best part of his job: getting to know Edison Scholars, high school students who get a $50,000 scholarship to pursue a ...

Sal Pizarro is a Bay Area News Group columnist who has written the Around Town column for The Mercury News since 2005. His column covers the people and events surrounding the cultural scene in ...