The Last Days of the Incas is among the most powerful and important accounts
of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, of the modern search for the
Incas. lost Amazonian capital of Vilcabamba, and of the discovery of Machu
Picchu. In 1911 an American historian from Yale University, Hiram Bingham,
stumbled upon a spectacular set of Inca ruins called Machu Picchu, set high
upon a ridge in the cloud forest of Peru. Bingham had been searching for
a lost Inca city called Vilcabamba.a legendary capital in the Amazon
rainforest from which the Incas had conducted a nearly four-decades-long
guerrilla war. Spanish renegades had taught the Incas how to ride European
horses and to use European weapons and guns and the Incas nearly succeeded
in wiping Francisco Pizarro and his conquistadors out. But was Machu Picchu
really the Incas. long lost guerrilla capital? Or did Vilcabamba still lie
somewhere in the jungle.a lost Inca city waiting to be discovered?

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