16th century Spain was a country filled with beauty coming at the height of Christian influence in the West with the Catholic and Protestant Reformation.

In this time, Spain had arrived at a golden age of art, literature, and architecture.

Imagine walking through the cobblestone streets in Central Spain and stopping to admire the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de Escarole, its imposing high white stone walls inlaid with glass. Statues of the great saints of the Christian faith overlooking the

courtyard, the kings.

As you walk into the monastery, your chest titans at the transcendent beauty of the high altar, where 92 foot arched

ceilings stand overhead, adorned with paintings from some of the greatest artists in human history.

The altar screen is crafted with the finest red granite and Jasper.

They are kneeling in humble contrition at the sides of the altar sit bronze statues of the kings and

queens of Spain. As you explore the beautiful marriage of art and

architecture you hear distant echoes of monks chanting of the pantheon of the kings where the kings and queens of Spain are laid to rest

the walls of polished Toledo marble are ornamented in gold-pleaded bronze. Twenty-six marble seplicurs containing the remains of the kings and queens of Spain

await the return of Christ to raise them from their long sleep.

The Spanish explorers who landed on the couple of to raise them from their long sleep.

The Spanish explorers who landed on the coasts

of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico

were sent out from this culture.

What they found there was so horrifically shocking that for hundreds of years, no one believed them.

Modern day historians assume the Spanish conquistadors have wildly exaggerated the horrors of the

Aztec people in order to justify their brutal conquest of the

as tech empire. The Spanish claim that display racks containing up to 130,000

human skulls were seen around the Aztec temple.

But centuries had gone by without a trace of these supposed horrors.

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