Long before colonization, the people of Peru kept track of important information using a mysterious coding system of strings and knots called a quipu.

What it’s about: The movie is set in 1532 and it follows the attempts of Francisco Pizarro and his group of conquistadors as they claim the Inca Empire for Spain. The only thing that stands between ...

Atahualpa usually traveled by litter, but he was a young warrior-king in a nation that valued walking, and he might have felt the need, as I did, to prove he could make it down on foot.

The quest for Inca Emperor Atahualpa’s Gold Treasure gains momentum as explorers find ancient Inca pathways and a secret lagoon. Credit: Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum / Public Domain A team of ...

In their hands, they had their own worlds: the Inca Empire (Tahuantinsuyu) and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. The two rulers created a unique, unrepeatable experience, which is ...

Every new Inca ruler traditionally founded an estate for his royal lineage and Bray believes that may have been Atahualpa’s intention at Inca-Caranqui. The new floor level would have been part ...

While Mansa Musa’s wealth shook the Mediterranean, Atahualpa, the last ruler of the Incan Empire, controlled an equally remarkable fortune, although under different circumstances.

Atahualpa, the younger son of former Incan ruler Huayna Capac, had just deposed his half-brother Huascar and was in the midst of reuniting his kingdom when Pizarro arrived in 1531, with the ...

Indeed, many historians mark 1533 — the year Atahualpa was killed and the Spaniards conquered the capital city of Cuzco — as the end of the civilization. Still, the final Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru, didn ...

After fighting a bloody civil war against his brother, the prince Atahualpa emerged as the sole leader of the Inca in 1532. But his reign was short-lived. While traveling to the Inca capital Cuzco ...