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Has there been much written about wrecks of the period of the looting of the treasures of the Aztecs in 1521 (fall of Tenochtitlan) and subsequently Inca in 1533 (execution of Atahualpa) and the immediate years following? My main interest is gold ornaments and jewelry hence my past posts re...

This Project started through curious circumstances way back in 1998. Dr. Keith Barron was on a field leave from a job in Venezuela and enrolled in a Spanish language school in Quito and lodged with Professor Octavio Latorre and family. Professor Latorre is a Historian, Archivist and world...

Hi All I am new to this forum and am looking for assistance in identifying and evaluating some cool artifacts my wife and i recently found. After searching the internet we found that the artifacts are probably from my wife's late father's visit to Peru in the 80's. I think we have: 9 Tumis...

Hi there! My name is Danielle and I work in Development for an award-winning television production company based in Manhattan. We are currently developing a new series which will follow various treasure hunters as they search for the Inca Treasure. I am reaching out to the TreasureNet...

I am thinking about going down to Ecuador to do some prospecting. Does anyone have any information on this. links? Has anyone done it? Is there a forum Im missing? magazine articles? books? I cannot find much on the web beyond lonely planet guide and hippy rain forest tours, stuff like that...

Here is a an interesting clip on some Inca tombs high up in the hills above the lost valley of the Incas Amy

There is a small mountain lake in Bolivia high up in Andes where it so clear it can reflect the sky like a mirror to the stars. It has been sacred to the Incas for eons and legends have it as many lakes and caves was the hiding place of Inca treasure after the Inca discovered the death of...

Not sure where to post this, but Treasure Legends seems to work. I was just reading the posts about Inca gold and remembered a story I heard recently. It was about gold stolen from the Incas from a Portuguese sailor who was then killed on the way home with it. The gold was given to Jesuit...

Dreams of fortune and glory is not a new one and even after the conquest of the Incas people so dreamed of fortune and glory in Peru. One such claim came from Paolo Greer's research in 1978. Greer posed the question was "lost city of the Incas", Machu Picchu, was it actually discovered forty...