Machu Picchu is the world’s most famous Inca site, but what became of the Empire of the Sun Gods?
When we launched History Revealed back in early 2014, our mantra was that the magazine would be all about telling amazing stories from the past. And few stories can match that of the end of the Incas, when the largest empire in the pre-Columbian Americas was defeated thanks to deceit and double-crossing. The repercusions of those days have been far reaching, but just how did thousands of experienced Inca warriors fail to repel just 170 Spaniards? The story unravels from page 56.