He captured the Aztec Tlatoani (emperor) Montezuma and used him to gain control of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital. Then, Cortes extracted a ransom, including a significant amount of gold, from the Aztecs in exchange for Montezuma's freedom. Although gold played a vital role in Cortes' conquest of the Aztec Empire, it was power, glory, and the expansion of the Spanish dominion in the New World that were his primary motivations.
Skip, skeiô, knörr…. It had been a hundred years since a Viking grave ship had been discovered in Norway. Detected in 2018, the one in Gjellestad is starting to tell its story. 2021 archaeological excavations of the Viking ship-grave of Gjellenstad (9th century), Norway. Was its prow adorned with
Archaeo-luthery specialists have carried out research on the ancient instruments represented in sculpture in the dungeon. They discovered that one of them, unknown until then, had really existed. A digital model of the psaltery in shield of the music room of the castle of Puivert, in Aude. In the
The recent announcement of a major archaeological discovery in the ancient cities of Thebes, Egypt, may not be that of a lost city , as proclaimed, but rather installations related to the city-palace of Amenhotep III. A nevertheless important discovery that could shed new light on the first years of
A shield discovered during excavations prior to the construction of a housing estate in Pocklington, a town located in the county of East Yorkshire in England, and recently restored, is already described as the most significant finding of the Iron Age in this century . The shield was part of an imp