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?

The Inca leader Pachacuti, as depicted by an early chronicler. According to a 1586 chronicle by the Spanish cleric Miguel Cabello Valboa, Pachacuti reigned from 1438 to 1471 and his son Tupac Inca ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Now an expert has pinpointed a site that could be Atahualpa's resting place: the last Inca emperor's tomb. "This is an absolutely important find for the history of Ecuador's archeology and for the ...

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 ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Randy Boyagoda CIVILIZATIONS By Laurent Binet Translated by Sam Taylor For his next feat ...