"The night of sorrows" - that is how Cortez described the defeat of the Spanish armed forces at the hand of Aztec Indians. Cortez and his men were surrounded in Tenochtitlan, the mythical city of gold in what's today modern Mexico. They were holding the Aztec ruler, Moctezuma, hostage. When Moctezuma died, the Aztecs grew violent and stormed the city.
Cortez planned an escape by night and instructed his men to take as much treasure as they could carry. They were hoping to slither by the Aztecs but were apprehended and a bloody battle ensued in which no individual escaped uninjured. A lot of Spanish infantrymen were fatally injured, unable to take flight because they were so bogged down with booty. They were killed by spears or drowned in the lake that the city of Tenochtitlan was built on. Many more soldiers would have died except the Aztecs stopped to retrieve their silver and gold. The date was 1520.
Though Cortez escaped with his life and later returned with great force to take down the Aztec Empire, one query remains to this day: What has happened to the treasure of gold and silver that the Spanish squads tried to cart off?
It is a historic fact the treasure is real. Its value has been estimated to be worth close to 1/2 of all the wealth ever found in Spanish South America. Some of the things that disappeared included solid bands of gold and silver, semi-precious jewels, a solid gold life-size alligator head and many collars made of gold. To this date, that treasure has never been found.
There are many speculations about what happened to the treasure. One hypothesis is that a good allotment of it sank to the bottom of the lake resulting in being covered by rubble when Cortez returned to pummel the city down into the ground. Treasure hunting has continued in the area to this date. The lake has been drained and dragged in endeavors to reclaim it.
Other hypotheses suggest the Aztecs hid the silver and gold in the close by hills or perhaps in another field some distance away. This is believable; particularly when you keep in mind that the Spanish conquerors brought illnesses like smallpox with them in which the Indians were defenseless. A severe pandemic in short finished the indigenous population in that area. So possibly the understanding on where the treasure was hidden expired with them.
Some may ponder whether treasure hunting can be rewarding. There are plenty of success stories to prove it utterly can be. In 1998, Mel Fisher found the wreck of a Spanish treasure ship in the Caribbean that was loaded down with 100,000 gold coins. He immediately changed into a multi-millionaire as a outcome. In 2005, $10,000,000,000 worth of treasure-in the case of 6 hundred barrels of gold coins-was found at "Crusoe" Island close to the coast of Chile.
There's more sophisticated gear for treasure hunting being developed all of the time. A mini robot that has the ability scan 50 meters below the earth was utilized to find the gold coins on Crusoe Island. With new hardware such as this, it's worth having a second look at the story of La Noche Triste and see whether the legendary lost treasure can be discovered.
Cortez planned an escape by night and instructed his men to take as much treasure as they could carry. They were hoping to slither by the Aztecs but were apprehended and a bloody battle ensued in which no individual escaped uninjured. A lot of Spanish infantrymen were fatally injured, unable to take flight because they were so bogged down with booty. They were killed by spears or drowned in the lake that the city of Tenochtitlan was built on. Many more soldiers would have died except the Aztecs stopped to retrieve their silver and gold. The date was 1520.
Though Cortez escaped with his life and later returned with great force to take down the Aztec Empire, one query remains to this day: What has happened to the treasure of gold and silver that the Spanish squads tried to cart off?
It is a historic fact the treasure is real. Its value has been estimated to be worth close to 1/2 of all the wealth ever found in Spanish South America. Some of the things that disappeared included solid bands of gold and silver, semi-precious jewels, a solid gold life-size alligator head and many collars made of gold. To this date, that treasure has never been found.
There are many speculations about what happened to the treasure. One hypothesis is that a good allotment of it sank to the bottom of the lake resulting in being covered by rubble when Cortez returned to pummel the city down into the ground. Treasure hunting has continued in the area to this date. The lake has been drained and dragged in endeavors to reclaim it.
Other hypotheses suggest the Aztecs hid the silver and gold in the close by hills or perhaps in another field some distance away. This is believable; particularly when you keep in mind that the Spanish conquerors brought illnesses like smallpox with them in which the Indians were defenseless. A severe pandemic in short finished the indigenous population in that area. So possibly the understanding on where the treasure was hidden expired with them.
Some may ponder whether treasure hunting can be rewarding. There are plenty of success stories to prove it utterly can be. In 1998, Mel Fisher found the wreck of a Spanish treasure ship in the Caribbean that was loaded down with 100,000 gold coins. He immediately changed into a multi-millionaire as a outcome. In 2005, $10,000,000,000 worth of treasure-in the case of 6 hundred barrels of gold coins-was found at "Crusoe" Island close to the coast of Chile.
There's more sophisticated gear for treasure hunting being developed all of the time. A mini robot that has the ability scan 50 meters below the earth was utilized to find the gold coins on Crusoe Island. With new hardware such as this, it's worth having a second look at the story of La Noche Triste and see whether the legendary lost treasure can be discovered.
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Tom one of the key contributors to the base information, as well as, to the development and enlargement of Satellite Treasure Map Data overlaid on Google Maps. Tom has accumulated this knowledge through many years of seeking out secret truths thru many varied sources.