Steeped in death, conquest, desire ... at his palace in Cajamarca in modern-day Peru by Spanish commander Francisco Pizarro. Pizarro agreed to release Atahualpa in return for a roomful of gold ...

When the Inca conquered the Tiwanaku ... and in 1533 their leader, Francisco Pizarro, picked a young prince, Manco Inca Yupanqui, to rule as a puppet king. In the far distance, voices of the ...

When I first looked at background material on the project that became "The Great Inca Rebellion," I ... the European conquest of the Americas. Pizarro's conquest of Peru is at the core of that ...

At its height, the Inca empire spanned 3,000 miles ... By 1532, Peru was conquered by Spaniard Francisco Pizarro, and in 1567, Alvarez Maldonado claimed the Manu river and surrounding regions ...

You wouldn’t, I hope, describe me and my husband, Adrian, as a lazy couple. We’ve always been busy with work and the general ...

After defeating the forces of Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, in 1533, Francisco ... Inca Empire conquered the area in the late fifteenth century. Just over 400 years after Pizarro’s raid ...

From Christopher Columbus to Marco Polo, these celebrated—and controversial—explorers made groundbreaking journeys across the ...

As the Ming Dynasty was reordering China, and the Ottomans conquering eastern Europe, the Inca were constructing their vast empire, spreading from their heartland in southern Peru to a territory ...

Shenando de Soto helped Diego Pizarro conquer Peru in the early 1530s while he was on the expedition of Francisco Pizarro. The discovery of the Mississippi River occurred in 1539 after he met with ...

latest historical novel tackles the complex and tragic story of Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro and his army of conquistadores, as they ravage and destroy Peru’s Inca civilization in their ...