Map of the New Land of Santa Cruz, at the southern tip of California, discovered by Hernán Cortés in...
Spanish soldiers advancing across the Americas, despite notorious opposition from the belligerent Aztec people and the military alliances won by Cortés Archivo de la Nación,...
Anonymous Aztec standard-bearer figurine made ca 1519 in volcanic stone, used during ceremonies Museum of Fine Arts,...
A zoomorphic gold pectoral cast in lost wax and hammered in gold belonging to a pre-Columbian society Bogota Gold...
The image is a painting by Joseph Alonso del Ribero, dated 1805, which depicts Charles III handing over land in the Sierra Morena to settlers who had recently arrived from different...
The image shows the moments before the execution of the last king of France, Louis XVI The king can be seen in the centre of the image with the guillotine behind him and a pleading...
