How much gold did the conquistadors take? A total of 181 tons of gold and 16 000 tons of silver were imported from the New World by the Spanish between 1500 and 1650. Where did Cortes find gold? In ...

In 1541, Spanish explorers established a settlement called San Geronimo III in present-day southern Arizona. Led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, the conquistadors were exploring what is now the ...

Using metal detectors near the Santa Cruz River, Seymour and her team dug up equipment they believed belonged to the Spanish ...

It defines people who consider themselves to be descendants of the Spanish conquistadors that arrived in the 1500s. Hispanos have lived side by side the Pueblo for centuries—mixing cultures ...

The Spanish conquistador and his 350 soldiers intended to locate the legendary (and nonexistent) Seven Cities of Gold somewhere north of Mexico. Instead of untold riches, Coronado and his men ...

Using freshly translated documents written by the Spanish conquistadors more than 400 years ago and an array of high-tech equipment, Blakeslee located what he believes to be the lost city of ...

Now, scientists confirm it was part of a plunder by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés ... He explained that researchers used fluorescent X-ray equipment to analyze the gold bar’s chemical ...

A tantalizing clue that may help solve the 500-year-old mystery around the “lost fleet” of Spanish conquistador Hernán ... Vera Cruz with remote sensing equipment designed to detect unusual ...

Scientists have exhumed a nearly 500-year-old bronze conquistador cannon in Arizona ... It was located on the floor of a Spanish stone-and-adobe building that was part of San Geronimo III, the ...

During a systematic metal detector survey in southern Arizona, Deni Seymour unearthed a 16th-century cannon likely left behind by Spanish conquistadors. Deni Seymour In 1541, Spanish explorers ...