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 ...

Mistakenly proclaiming it the last city of the Incas ... Inside, an empty niche once held a statue of Inti, the Inca sun god, flanked by sheets of gold. “When the light caught them,” wrote ...

The Lost City of Paititi and Inca Gold Legend has it that the Incas hid a great treasure of gold and jewels in a secret city called Paititi to save it from invaders. The city is believed to be ...

Cuzco, which emerged as the richest city in the New World ... learned of the abundance of gold in Inca society and soon set out to conquer it—at all costs. The plundering of Inca riches ...

Not surprisingly, the Inca also made models of this hardy creature that was so fundamental to the lives of the people and to the running of the Empire. Our little gold llama is so tiny that it can ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

Rather, a strange chemical reaction recently captured by European Space Agency probes is to blame for the spider-like feature ...

But while this abandoned Andean city is unquestionably the jewel ... measures over a football pitch in length. The Inca were famously suckers for gold, but the most dazzling displays of this ...

Cuzco, which emerged as the richest city in the New World ... learned of the abundance of gold in Inca society and soon set out to conquer it—at all costs. The plundering of Inca riches ...