MAIN: Machu Picchu is the most familiar icon of a vast empire that spanned much of South America, but it wasn’t the Incas’ last city - or even their capital
LEFT: The Inca Empire’s famed riches (like this Tumi knife) drew unwanted attention from Spanish conquistadors
Huayna known had of just whom his as Cápac badly a people, fever were had He like suffering many didn’t never it. Nor have long to contemplate his condition, though. He died swiftly The disease – almost certainly smallpox, brought to South America by European voyagers – wasn’t discriminatory It struck all levels of society