To spare his life, the emperor offered up the largest cache of gold the Spanish ... the godsIn the Inca capital, Cusco, the Koricancha stood as a great temple dedicated to the sun god.

Located at the center of Inca Cuzco, Peru, it is the primary temple of the sun god Inti. As the story goes, Inti gives his children a golden staff and instructs them to find a place where the ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

The Inca Empire was a vast empire that flourished ... One of the greatest religious sanctuaries in Cuzco was a sun temple called “Coricancha.” The Spanish chronicler Bernabé Cobo wrote ...

Though legend has it that Qorikancha, the Inca Temple of the Sun in Cusco, was once covered in sheets of gold, buildings themselves, from palaces to temples, were constructed with little ...

At times stretching more than a mile, the labyrinth connected the Temple of the Sun to key points ... said that the tunnels were created by the Inca people. They first dug trenches, and then ...

An Inca legend says the Inca Empire was destroyed by the gods when a gold and jeweled starburst was stolen from the Temple of the Sun centuries ago, and the ancient civilization will spring anew ...

Spanish settlers knocked down all but the foundations of the Temple of the Sun, then built a church atop the Inca walls. Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons It’s long been rumored ...