The Legend of the Lost Inca Gold

Gold and Silver were abundant in the Inca civilization. The city of Cuzco was the capital of the Inca empire and the richest. Once the Spaniards reached the new world they heard of  the abundance of the Inca's Gold.  The king of the Incas at the time was Atahualpa. He was then captured by Francisco Pizzaro a Spanish commander.Francisco promised he would release Atahualpa if the Incas would give him a roomful of gold.

In today's standards that gold would be worth about $50 million. Of course Francisco changed his mind about the deal and had Atahualpa strangled to death before the gold was delivered. Supposedly the gold was buried in a secret cave where it remains to this day. Then 50 yrs. later a Spaniard named Valverde was supposedly led to this gold and became rich.Upon his death he left directions to this gold.

The last person to discover this gold was Barth Blake in 1886. He said he found tons of gold& silver pieces and tons of other gold. He took only what he could carry and never went back.Some say that on his way to New York he disappeared overboard.Numerous expeditions in search of the gold have failed.  The gold did in fact exist because it was recorded in the Spanish chronicle. The problem is the mountains themselves. They are big and hard to access. It is not a question of whether  the gold exists or not.It's more of where is the gold or what happened to it.

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