Silver lured the Spanish Empire to South America in the sixteenth century, when conquistadores took on the mighty Incan Empire in present-day Peru. In 1532 at the Battle of Cajamarca, Francisco ...
The abandoned city of Machu Picchu is one legacy of the Spanish conquest of the Incas. Traces of air pollution in a Peruvian ice cap are another. Laurie Chamberlain/Corbis The arrival of the Spanish ...
The Chachapoyas region was conquered by the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Knowledge of the fate of the local population has been based largely on Inca oral histories, written down only decades ...
A fire that burns deep -- In search of Birú -- A second chance -- A test of will -- Inca heritage -- The empire of the sun -- Return of the prodigal son -- The third voyage -- Civil war -- Pizarro's ...
What remains of the Inca legacy is limited, as the conquistadors plundered what they could of Inca treasures and in so doing, dismantled the many structures painstakingly built by Inca craftsmen to ...
(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Through a mix of crime-lab science, archeology, and history, this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing ...
The Chachapoyas region was conquered by the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Inca oral histories, written down after the Spanish conquest, claim that the native population was forcibly resettled ...
(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Through a mix of crime-lab science, archeology, and history, this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing ...
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