Tests conducted on a gold bar found decades ago in Mexico City reveal that it was part of the Aztec treasure looted by the Spanish conquistadors
An x-ray detector scans a large gold bar found decades ago in downtown Mexico City, part of the plunder Spanish conquerors fleeing the Aztec capital after native warriors forced a hasty retreat, is seen in this handout photograph released to Reuters by the National Institute of Anthropology and History on January 9, 2020.
That night – June 30, 1520 – the Aztecs, furious over the slaughter of their nobles and priests, drove the Spanish invaders from their capital, Tenochtitlan. "The so-called 'Noche Triste' is among the episodes of the conquest that will be remembered this year, and there is only one piece of material evidence from it: a gold bar that sank 500 years ago in the canals of Tenochtitlan, and which recent analysis confirms came from the flight," INAH said in a statement.
In June 1520, Cortes – who had launched his expedition in Mexico without official authorisation – learned that the Spanish governor in Cuba had sent a party of soldiers to arrest him.
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