Tenochtitlan, a metropolis built in the middle of a lake, with floating islands supported by piles. The date: November 1519.

Archaeologists found that while the Mexica primarily used green obsidian, obsidian also came from at least seven other ...

May 16 has been a date marked by significant events throughout history, spanning continents and centuries, each contributing ...

It was unearthed at the site of San Geronimo III, a doomed settlement established during the Spanish conquest ... Hernán Cortés during his conquest of the Aztec Empire. The cannon’s design ...

Our Lady of Cocharcas exemplifies how cultural hybridity influenced colonial art, as indigenous communities may have adopted European figures to assert their identity while outwardly conforming to ...

July 10, 2015: Apologizes in Bolivia for the sins and crimes of the Catholic Church against Indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas. Sept. 8, 2015: Overhauls the ...

Trent Alexander-Arnold Liverpool future remains uncertain as his contract continues to edge closer to expiring. The vice captain's match-winning strike at Leicester City is the latest moment in a ...

And that is exactly what this book offers: a hemispheric interpretation of the Spanish conquest, the Age of Revolution ... side of the Spanish Catholic Empire, currents which gave birth to the ...

the influence of the Spanish empire’s Pacific trade from Acapulco to Manila to California and south along the coast is evident. “Seen together these objects – obscure treasures collected from sunken ...

The Spanish Empire was an improbable creation. Relatively poor, meagrely populated and only recently integrated, Spain nonetheless built the largest realm the world had seen. From a landlocked capital ...