“The Incas: A Sudden Fall” is set to air on Travel at 10:00 Pm on Thursday, October 16, 2025. This episode of “Greatest Mysteries Ever” dives into the fascinating and tragic story of the Inca Empire.

Pizarro and his 168 conquistadors were the first Europeans to make contact with the Inca Empire. In roughly less than two decades, the Spanish – many of whom were not professional soldiers – brought ...

Francisco Pizarro’s conquest of the Incan empire is one of the most extraordinary achievements in military history. In the space of a single day in 1532, less than two hundred Spanish conquistadors ...

Avide d'or et d'argent, le conquistador Francisco Pizarro captura l'empereur inca Atahualpa. Pour se protéger, ce dernier proposa de lui offrir le plus grand trésor jamais acquis par les Espagnols au ...

When Europeans first arrived in the Americas, their guns, horses, and, perhaps most importantly, diseases, made relatively quick work of conquering native populations. But while Indigenous weaponry ...

The deeds of the conquistadors were surely as amazing as those of the ancient Greeks or Romans. But even in the 16th century, questions were asked about the morality of their exploits. Michael Wood ...

Scientists studying ice core samples from Peru have discovered a variety of trace elements, indicating that Spanish colonial mining caused toxic air pollution over South America approximately 240 ...

Si les Aztèques rayonnaient au centre du Mexique, l’empire inca, lui, s’étendait plus au sud, sur près de 4000 km, le long de la façade Pacifique, entre l’Équateur et le Chili actuels. Emporter dans ...

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 ...