And on the frontiers of the lost empire, they are piecing ... and in 1533 their leader, Francisco Pizarro, picked a young prince, Manco Inca Yupanqui, to rule as a puppet king.

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America ... in modern-day Peru by Spanish commander Francisco Pizarro. Pizarro agreed to release Atahualpa ...

the Inca monarch, who would have perhaps traveled this route to his fatal encounter with Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conqueror. Atahualpa usually traveled by litter, but he was a young warrior ...

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 ...

the Spanish quickly imposed their own religion on the Empire. One of the first churched they built was San Francisco de Quito – constructed on top of the palace of the last undisputed Inca ...