"The Incas were simply too powerful to be resisted ... level or by commanding the labor of a large set of people through conquest, really made an individual or polity wealthy.

The Inca Empire was a vast empire that flourished in the Andean region of South America from the early 15th century A.D. up until its conquest by the Spanish in the 1530s. Even after the conquest ...

NOVA investigates skeletal evidence that reveals a new story of the Spanish conquest of the Inca and rewrites the history laid down by the Spanish conquistadors. describes 21 st century Lima ...

Laurie Chamberlain/Corbis The arrival of the Spanish in South America in the late 16th century heralded the destruction of the once mighty Inca empire—and triggered a surge in air pollution ...

The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the ...

Montero, then living in Florence, used the corpse of an Andean man as a model for the dead Atahualpa in his painting, which serves to underscore widespread historical fascination with the decline of ...

The abandoned city of Machu Picchu is one legacy of the Spanish conquest of the Incas. Traces of air pollution in a Peruvian ice cap are another. Laurie Chamberlain/Corbis The arrival of the ...