On Nov. 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro first encountered the Inca emperor Atahualpa in the town of Cajamarca in the northern highlands of Peru. Atahualpa was accompanied by an army of several thousand ...

Cajamarca, Peru — On a busy Peruvian street, crammed between a video store and a restaurant, is a narrow, stone storefront with the words “ransom room” carved above the door in Spanish. Inside, in a ...

Late one November afternoon in 1532, Atahualpa, the ruler of the Inca Empire, approached Cajamarca, a town couched in a valley of the Peruvian Andes, to meet with a small band of foreigners. His ...

On throwing a breviary into the dirt – replete with its notorious Psalm 67, calling on all lands on Earth to submit to the Christian lord – Atahualpa would be taken prisoner by General Francisco ...

LIMA, Peru — If you stand at a certain spot inside the newest park in this capital city and crane your neck skyward, you might see two things: an imposing bronze statue of a conquistador astride a ...

In 1532, Francisco de Pizarro defeated the great Inca emperor Atahualpa's army of 30,000 warriors with just 180 men. Who was this man who brought the powerful empire to its knees? What drove him to ...

The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his ...

The old slaver -- The conquest of paradise -- The capture of the sun god -- Cuzco -- The siege of the holy city -- The death of Almagro -- The frontiers of New Castile -- Marqués of the Indies -- The ...