Finding Lost Treasures: La Noche Triste
“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.
Even though Cortez escaped with his life and later returned with overwhelming force to take apart the Aztec Empire, one enquiry remains to this day: What happened to the treasure of silver and gold the Spanish soldiers had tried to carry away?
It is a fact the treasure is genuine. Its worth has been calculated to be worth close to half of all the wealth ever gathered in Spanish South America. Some of the valuables that were lost included solid balls of gold and silver, semi-precious jewels, a solid gold life-size alligator head and countless collars made of gold. To this very day, this treasure hasn’t been found.
There are countless speculations about what’s happened to the treasure. One theory is that a significant part of it sank into the lake and was covered by rubble when Cortez returned to raze the city to the ground. Treasure hunting has continued in the area to this day. The lake bed was even drained and dragged in attempts to find it.
Other theories say that the Aztecs hid the gold and silver in the nearby hills or maybe in a further field some distance away. This is credible; especially when you consider that the Spanish conquerors brought sicknesses such as smallpox with them against which the Indians were defenseless. A dreadful epidemic shortly decimated the native population in that area. So maybe the awareness of where the treasure was concealed died with them.
Some may wonder whether treasure hunting can make money . There are sufficient success stories to prove it 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 quickly turned into a multi-millionaire as a result. In 2005, $10 billion worth of treasure-in the form of 600 barrels of gold coins-was found at “Crusoe” Island near the coast of Chile.
There’s more innovative equipment for treasure hunting being developed all of the time. A mini robot that could scan 50 meters under the earth was utilised to find the gold coins on Crusoe Island. With new apparatuses 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 uncovered.
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.
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