The Incas apparently spirited it away before the Spanish could get their hands on it, and there are persistent rumors that it's hidden in a secret tunnel beneath Cuzco. 2.

The Incas also had an elaborate food storage system. ... Just to give you an idea of the scale involved, at least according to some reports, the Incas in Cuzco [the Inca capital] ...

After centuries of speculation, archaeologists in Peru have confirmed the existence of an underground tunnel network, thought to have been built by the Incas. The groundbreaking discovery was ...

INCAS: Book 2, The Gold of Cuzco A. B. Daniel, , trans. from the French by Alex Gilly. . Simon & Schuster, $14 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-7434-3275-7 ...

The high-flying Andean capital of Cuzco is the gateway to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, South America’s premier tourist destination. Each year more than a million foreign visitors pass ...

Situated in the Peruvian Andes, Cuzco developed, under the Inca ruler Pachacutec, into a complex urban centre with distinct religious and administrative functions. It was surrounded by clearly ...

Visitors admire a replica of a gold mask from Sanxingdui at an ongoing exhibition at the Inka Museum in Cuzco, Peru. The exhibition, titled Light of the Sun: A Dialogue Between Ancient Shu and ...

The Inca leader Pachacuti, as depicted by an early chronicler. According to a 1586 chronicle by the Spanish cleric Miguel Cabello Valboa, Pachacuti reigned from 1438 to 1471 and his son Tupac Inca ...