Huáscar also Guazcar was Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire from 1527 to 1532. He succeeded his father, Huayna Capac and his brother Ninan Cuyochi, both of whom died of smallpox during the same year while c
Twilight of Ancient Peru - the glory and decline of the Inca Empire by Lieselotte and Theo Engl (1969), photograph of original portrait located in the Ethnological Museum of Berlin.
The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of C
Huáscar
…Huáscar () (Classical Quechua: Waskhar, pronounced ) also Guazcar (before 1527 – 1532) was Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire from 1527 to 1532. He succeeded his father, Huayna Capac and his brother Ninan Cuyochi, both of whom died of smallpox during the same year while…
Stela in Tiwanaku's Kalasasaya temple
Manco Capac, First Inca, 1 of 14 Portraits of Inca Kings, Probably mid-18th century. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum
The first image of the Inca in Europe, Pedro Cieza de León, Crónica del Perú, 1553
Capaccona or Qhapaqkuna "the kings", a 17th-century Cusco painting with the Inca lineages mentioned by colonial chronicles and their relationship with the royal queens of Cuzco, which hide behind a complex representation of the Inca social organization.