unveiled a plaque that commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the 1976 Vilcabamba findings. In popular culture The lost city of Vilcabamba features in the educational computer game series The Amazon Trail, the Tomb Raider videogame and its remake Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and the books Evil Star and Necropolis by British thriller author Anthony Horowitz. Vilcabamba is also a playable place in the PlayStation 2 RPG Shadow Hearts: From the New World. The second episode of Michael Wood's 2000 documentary series Conquistadors visits the site of Vilcabamba while telling the story of the fall of the Inca and retreat of Manco and his followers to the remote region as the last surviving remnant of the empire. The city was the location of British writer Colin Thubron's 2002 novel, To the Last City, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and tells the story of a group of people who set off to explore the ruins of the Inca city in what has been described as a "Heart of Darkness narrative" in a "Marquezian setting". The science fiction story "Vilcabamba" (2010) by Harry Turtledove is a self-referential allegory of Vilcabamba as an alien invasion story set in the 22nd century. An episode of the TV Series In Search of... (1976-1982) titled "Inca Treasures", highlights the expedition taken by professor Edmundo Guillén to explore the ruins of Vilcabamba. Gallery See also List of archaeological sites in Peru Ñusta Hisp'ana Spanish conquest of Peru Túpac Amaru References Sources Deyermenjian, Gregory. (1985). "Vilcabamba Revisited" in South American Explorer, No. 12. Santander Casselli, Antonio (no date) "Vilcabamba" in Andanzas de un Soñador. Further reading Laurence Blair (2018). Peru’s last Incan city reveals its secrets: ‘It’s genuinely a marvel’. Espíritu Pampa: TheGuardian.com 16th-century establishments in the Inca civilization 16th-century disestablishments in the Inca civilization 1572 establishments in the Spanish Empire 1892 archaeological discoveries Former populated places in Peru History of Peru Inca Lost cities and towns Populated places established in 1539 Archaeological sites in Peru