Sinopsis

Nigel Davies's book The Incas is widely regarded as a definitive account of an empire devastated by the Spanish Conquest of 1532. Now, in this major new book, he draws on the evidence of recent excavations of Peruvian sites in a remarkable survey of the civilizations which preceded the Incas. As recently as 1987, robbers discovered by far the most spectacular vestiges of the Moche people, who ruled much of Peru for the first six centuries of the Christian era. This find.