Jan/Feb 2023 - NGH Single Copy

HISTORY JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2023
LOST TREASURE OF THE INCA
In 1531 Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro set out across South America to feed Europe’s lust for gold. Two years later, he seized an immense trove of golden objects during Spain’s invasion of Inca lands. Also explore Casanova’s hometown, Venice; how Harriet Powers’s colorful, 19th century quilts reveal the evolution of an African American tradition of storytelling; learn about the mighty trireme, the ancient Athen’s naval battering ram; Vikings in North America; and the discovery in Bulgaria of the Tomb of Kazanlak by WWII soldiers in 1944.