Atlanta's Fernbank Museum tracks infamous conquistador through Southeast

Archaeologists find De Soto artifacts in Georgia

		IMAGE: Sixteenth century glass beads are among the rare artifacts discovered at Fernbank Museum of Natural History's archaeology site, which scholars believe is a stop along Hernando de Soto's trek through... Click here for more information.

November 3, 2009, ATLANTA—Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path between Tallahassee and North Carolina has been found until now, and few sites have been located anywhere.