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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...