The Spanish conquest of New Granada refers to the conquest between 1525 and 1540 by the Spanish monarchy of the Chibchan-speaking nations of modern-day Colombia and Panama, mainly the Muisca and Tairo
First contact with Chibcha speakers was made on Columbus's fourth and last voyage
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The Muisca inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Colombian Andes before the arrival of the Spanish and were an advanced civilisation. They mummified the higher social class members of their so
The oldest mummies of South America come from the northern Chilean Chinchorro culture.
The mummies of the higher classes were decorated with golden crowns, earrings and noserings.
Small ceramic pots filled with food accompanied the mummies in their journey to the afterlife