Last vestige of the Inca Empire finally recognised as Vilcabamba

Posted On: Aug 18th, 2016 at 10:01

Peru
Has the last and lost vestige of the Inca Empire been found at Vilcabamba?
Before we start I’d like to complain about this article as it uses the name “Columbus” twice. Columbus was a nobody in comparison to others. He did not discover America. He was not the first, and it is shocking that some schools still teach this. At least as far as we know, in modern terms the Vikings were the first to set foot on American soil, at least a thousand years ago. They set up villages and stayed for considerable amounts of time – long enough for there to be recordable archaeology in the landscape in at least two sites. Also it was John Cabot – famous in my home city of Bristol – who was the “first” (post Viking era) to actually set foot on the mainland in 1497. Columbus didn’t even get that far. What Columbus did was set up trade routes from the East Indies that instigated the colonisation of the Americas… and that is nothing like “discovering” the continent. Right, my whinge is over. I can’t write a report without first complaining about something, as you know! 🙂
Tupac Amaru was the last Inca Emperor. After the Spanish lured the more famous Atahualpa to his death many years earlier, you’d think the Inca would have learned their lesson, but they did not. As the Spanish offered the life of Atahualpa in exchange for gold and then subsequently executed him, likewise they offered Tupac Amaru and his wife safety if they surrendered… You know what happened next.
I was always convinced that explorer Gene Savoy had found the site of the last battle many years ago, and now it seems Spanish archaeologists are agreeing with him. The location of the Vilcabamba site fits in with the colonial texts that recorded the last battle with the Inca empire by following the route the Spanish took from Cuzco, again based on the texts. Those texts are about as close as we could get to a modern live recording.
Excavations will now take place at the site, and I am convinced we will soon learn the truth. I am certain a wealth of archaeology will be found there. As soon as we start seeing metal weapons coming out of the ground it will be almost a certainty that the very last moments of the Inca empire will have been found. It is quite an exciting discovery, and it will be extremely emotional, although its taken decades for mainstream academia to catch up with the independent explorers who first claimed the site had been found. Don’t get me started on the arrogance of the established order, we’ll be here all day…

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