An 1898 painting by Frederic Remington portrays Spanish explorer Francisco Vazquez de Coronado on his ill-fated quest in 1541 ...

Portrait of Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez De Coronado on horseback with his fellow explorers traveling across a desert on route from Mexico through North America in his quest to find the the ...

It's a small piece of obsidian, just over 5 centimeters long, likely found on a hard-scrabble piece of ranchland in the Texas panhandle. But when SMU anthropologist Matthew Boulanger looks at it, he ...

Peter Stark's new book recounts Coronado's perilous 1540 expedition for gold in New Mexico and the powerful Zuni resistance.

Independent researchers in Arizona have unearthed a bronze cannon linked to the Vázquez de Coronado expedition, making it the oldest firearm ever found in the continental United States. The discovery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 500 years ago, an expedition led by Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado trekked through the plains of New Mexico ...

CORONADO: THE NEW EVIDENCE explores one of the longest-standing archaeological mysteries in the United States–the land route taken by famed explorer Spanish Francisco Vázquez de Coronado who from 1540 ...