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 ...

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 ...

the mestizo of Hispanic-Inca descent became one of the greatest references in describing the reality experienced by our ancestors in the struggle caused by the Spanish conquest. His historical ...

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 ...

Serving as a strategic military, religious, and agricultural center during the Inca Empire, it was one of the last refuges ...

The Spanish conquest and the clash of world views which would evenutally destroy the Inca.

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 civil war, European diseases, and the Spanish conquest beginning in ...