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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Rather, a strange chemical reaction recently captured by European Space Agency probes is to blame for the spider-like feature ...
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 ...
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 ...
In the Inca Empire, which was one of the largest in pre-Columbian America, the king was seen as a descendant of the sun god, and gold was used to adorn palaces and make artifacts. The organizers ...