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 ...

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 ...

1533, The Inca ruler Atahualpa in supplication before the conquering Spaniard Francisco Pizarro (c.1478 - 1541), who had him murdered after receiving an enormous ransom for his return.

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 ...

Arrest of Atahualpa Two of Huayna Capac's sons, half brothers Atahualpa and Huáscar, were granted separate Inca realms when the Sapa Inca and their eldest brother died of smallpox in the mid-1520s.

But that is precisely what happened here nearly 500 years ago, when the Incan emperor Atahualpa offered to fill a room once with gold and twice with silver in exchange for his freedom from 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.

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 ...

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 ...