Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering for an Inca mountain god. The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers.

Not surprisingly, the Inca also made models of this hardy creature that was so fundamental to the lives of the people and to the running of the Empire. Our little gold llama is so tiny that it can ...

It's hard to imagine, but the Inca had full-sized gold statues like these small figurines. They made gold statues of all their deities. But due to the great meltdown, when the Spaniards pillaged ...