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 ...

But around the time of the Spanish conquest of Peru in 1530, the Inca started mixing pigments, including titanium white, into resin and decorating qeros with the bright goo. An electron microscope ...

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, 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 ...

Before the Spanish conquest of Peru, the Inca were an expansive culture known for their elaborate constructions throughout the Andes. Machu Picchu perched in the mountains, the bustling empire ...

After the Spanish conquest in 1532, jungle growth enveloped the structures and temples. In 1911, Yale historian Hiram Bingham stumbled upon the "lost city of the Incas." Since then, its ...

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 ...

the eastern slopes of the northern Peruvian Andes where the Chachapoya society dominated the area prior to Inca conquest and the southern Peruvian coast where various cultures, such as the Chiribaya, ...