Note: This program contains recreations of violent battle scenes between the Inca and the Spanish conquistadors. Please preview it to determine its appropriateness for your classroom. NOVA ...

The red pigment on this idol isn't blood, but actually cinnabar. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A basketball-player-size wooden ...

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 ...

Elmore began the public talk, titled “Afterlives of the Inca: The Long History of Apu Inka Atawallpaman,” with an analysis of an 1867 painting by Peruvian artist Luis Montero depicting the funeral of ...

The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the ...

Like the modern-day Americans, the conquistadors used some high-minded rhetoric to justify their immoral grift. Gold and ...

Based on the book "Last Day of the Incas," this marks the latest addition to the network's rapidly growing event series coffers. By Lesley Goldberg Last Days of the Incas Book Cover - P 2013 The drama ...

500 years ago, two worlds met: utterly alien, unknown, unsuspected to one another. Three men decisively shaped that encounter and its legacy for succeeding generations. In this final lecture, Pizarro ...

The idol of Pachacamac was already 700 years old when Spanish conquistadors arrived in Peru, according to radiocarbon dating of the wood. People journeyed from all over the Andes to consult the statue ...

Gonzalo Pizarro was a Spanish Conquistador and a half-brother to Francisco Pizarro. His life is a story of controversy and conquest. Gonzalo Pizarro was born in 1510 in Spain and his life was marked ...

Note: This program contains recreations of violent battle scenes between the Inca and the Spanish conquistadors. Please preview it to determine its appropriateness for your classroom. NOVA ...

A basketball-player-size wooden idol that allegedly escaped destruction by the Spanish conquistadors is real — but it may not be quite what people suspected. The statue is even older than thought, and ...