is one of several turquoise objects that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés likely took from the Aztec Empire as treasure ...

Two 16th-century cannons unearthed in Arizona ... Texas and Kansas from 1539 to 1542. By this time, Spanish conquistadors had conquered much of Mesoamerica and Peru, destroying the Aztec and ...

When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the early 16th century, the temple was among many structures that were destroyed and a new cathedral was built on top of the ruins. It wasn't until 1978 that ...

The Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto had made ... lead shot and a small piece of majolica from a 16th-century medicine jar. He notes that such materials were not trade items; nails were ...

Though the 16th-century Spanish conquistador invasion ended the Inca Empire, the legacy of the Incas lives on in their architectural triumphs—precise, remarkably engineered stoneworks rising ...

Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates mountain range between the Andes and the Amazon is said to exist a fabulous Inca hoard hidden from Spanish ... in the 16th century, when the ...

When Spanish explorers reached South America in the early 16th century, they heard stories about a tribe of natives high in the Andes mountains in what is now Colombia. When a new chieftain rose ...