As Abu ‘abd-Allah Muhammad XII, known as Boabdil, surrendered Granada, Spain, to Ferdinand and Isabella, in the same year that they sent Christopher Columbus on his explorations of the New World, Boabdil descended from the Alhambra, overlooked the city and was reproached by his mother,

Weep like a woman for what you could not defend as a man – The Moor’s Last Sigh

Photos from the Swedish National Heritage Board, javi_indy, Kalense Kid, Darrell Godliman, karlo, mau_tweety and Balthus Van Tassel.