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Featured Video: The Great Inca Rebellion
Archaeology and forensics shed new light on the Spanish conquest of the Incas, upending the traditional account as suggested by the Spanish Chronicles.
What are the truths behind the Spanish conquest of Peru? How did a relatively small band of conquistadors bring an entire civilization to its knees? Archaeological inquiry has revealed some startling revelations about how a seemingly unbelievable event occurred, as related in detail through this recently released NOVA presentation. It details, in visually stunning and dramatic fashion, how archaeology and forensics can illuminate historic events and mysteries, rewriting history or providing new information that could never be obtained conclusively and exclusively from the historical record. (Photo: Painting, “Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru”, by John Everett Millais, showing Pizarro in the act of capturing the king of the Inca Atahualpa. Wikimedia Commons)
Watch The Great Inca Rebellion on PBS. See more from NOVA.
*Republished from Popular Archaeology with permission
