hackbut cannon shown here would have appeared similar to 15th or 16th century German light ... be disassembled for transport. In 1540, Spanish conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado set ...

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 ...

is one of several turquoise objects that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés likely took from the Aztec Empire as treasure in the early 16th century. The mask was carved out of Spanish cedar ...

In the mid- to late-16th century, the Inca empire—weakened by internal strife—fell to the rule of invading Spanish colonizers. The Inca left no written records of their underground ...

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 ...

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 ...