[Aztlan] English translation of the Atahualpa tomb find story

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

An English translation of the La Jornada story on the claim to have  
found Atahualpa's tomb.

Mike Ruggeri


Peru says anthropologist have found the tomb of Atahualpa
After 30 years of research, Natividad Vasquez said that the last Inca  
emperor is on windows of Jangalá, although his thesis has not been  
endorsed by the National Institute of Culture of Peru.
Dpa
Posted: 21/10/2008 10:06
Lima. A Peruvian anthropologist claims to have found the tomb of  
Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, but his thesis is not yet supported  
by the National Institute of Culture of Peru (INC), as reported this  
Tuesday, the Lima newspaper Peru 21.
Natividad Vasquez said that after 30 years of research can ensure  
that the body of Atahualpa, was murdered by the Spanish conquistador  
Francisco Pizarro, is in a place called the windows of Jangalá, San  
Miguel in the province's department of Cajamarca, so called for  
archaeologists come to the excavations.
According to Vasquez, the windows of Jangalá, houses a complex of pre- 
Inca, was the place to which the followers of the emperor took the  
body of their leader after removing it from the chapel where he was  
buried after being killed in 1533 in the city of Cajamarca , Capital  
of the homonymous department. Some versions suggest however that the  
remains could be in Quito.
However, for the head of the INC in Cajamarca, Eduardo Caceres, "we  
can not say that there (in Jangalá) are the remnants of Atahualpa,  
but neither can we deny anything because the area has not yet been  
investigated," Caceres said Vasquez in their quest to find the place  
even caused physical damage to the archaeological zone, so there is a  
complaint against him in the Prosecutor's Office brought by the INC.
Atahualpa, who lived in Quito and whose civil war with his brother  
Huáscar facilitated the conquest of the rule by the Spaniards, is  
considered the last Inca leader, but the conquerors after killing him  
put others in their place.
In one episode greatly missed in history, the thirteenth Inca  
emperor, son of Huayna Capac, given the Spaniards rooms full of gold  
and silver so that it does not kill. Although met, was executed. It  
is estimated that was then 36 years.