when the Spaniard Pizarro captured and executed the final Inca ruler, Atahualpa, dealing a fatal blow to what had been the largest indigenous empire in the Americas. How did the Incas rise so quickly?

Apparently worried that the Incan ruler was summoning an army to free him, the Spaniards decided to play it safe and execute him, according to some historians. They say Atahualpa avoided being ...

caption]“I think Huayna Capac built the site, and then Atahualpa remodeled it for his coronation,” says Bray. Every new Inca ruler traditionally founded an estate for his royal lineage and ...

Presented as a play within a play, "Atahualpa" is supposedly the work of amateur "actors" staging a folk play about the Inca ruler killed by Spanish conquerors in 1533. Their production includes ...

Inca emperor Atahualpa is shown in a 19th-century portrait ... So the greatest treasure ever amassed was extracted from one ruler to pay for another’s war on a distant shore.

Inca ruler Atahualpa is seized by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in this John Everett Millais painting. Nearly 500 years later, scientists have found evidence of the legacy of conquest in a ...

Estupiñan found that Sigchos was part of Atahualpa’s landholdings. Working on a hunch, Estupiñan began researching Incan death rituals and discovered that a ruler’s mummy was referred to as ...

when the Spaniard Pizarro captured and executed the final Inca ruler, Atahualpa, dealing a fatal blow to what had been the largest indigenous empire in the Americas. How did the Incas rise so quickly?

Estupinan found that Sigchos was part of Atahualpa’s landholdings. Working on a hunch, Estupinan began researching Incan death rituals and discovered that a ruler’s mummy was referred to as a ...