Pizarro agreed to release Atahualpa in return for a roomful of gold, but the Spaniard later reneged ... thousands of gold and silver pieces of Inca and pre-Inca handicraft, the most beautiful ...
In Peru, 800-year-old remains of apparently a pre-Inca society ... defeated and conquered by the Inca in the late 1400s, before Inca got subjugated by the Spaniards in 1532.