Nearly four decades ago, a construction worker discovered a gigantic bar of gold while excavating ahead of construction of a new building in Mexico City. Now, archaeologists have confirmed that this slab of gold was plundered from the Aztecs by Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century.
In the middle of the night on June 30, 1520, faced with an Aztec rebellion and a lack of food, Hernán Cortés and his followers stole a huge cache of Aztec treasures and fled from Tenochtitlán (modern-day Mexico City), which the conquistadors had recently conquered.
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