Before the arrival of Columbus, the Americas were home to diverse and sophisticated civilizations that shaped the continent’s history and culture. This video provides a detailed map-based summary of ...

Hernán Cortés, having overthrown Aztec Mexico, seized a cache of gold ... The volume of all the gold in the Inca Empire would have been almost 14 times greater than all the gold then in Europe ...

EL PAÍS received exclusive access to the latest developments and updates in the Ancient American Art section of the ...

A multi-faceted creator, John Leguizamo has established a career that defies categorization. With boundless energy and ...

New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, respectively, ...

The history of peanut butter and chocolate go back to the Aztecs and Incas in South America, although if they ever combined the two is anyone’s guess. The sweetened version of peanut butter we ...

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America was giving way to European invaders. Atahualpa was an Inca king who, after warring with his half-brother ...

On October 25, 1555, the grandees of the Habsburg Netherlands gathered in the Great Hall of the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels to witness an extraordinary event. A weary old man with a grey beard and a ...