Taylor's research focuses on the cultural practices of the Late Prehistoric tribe, which inhabited South Texas between 1300 and 1528 CE. Setting out to analyze and classify a series of relics made ...

The women’s faces were paired with skulls, with stitches across their faces, while bright flowers in their hair belied the ...

Nonfiction: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brilliantly reimagines the enduring conflict between the two Americas.

Holland’s talented 17th-century painters are partly to blame for the madness of Tulipmania: Their delicate depictions of the flowers, compiled in catalogs (or tulpenboeks) and shipped across ...

In his criticisms of the church and defiance of traditionalists, Pope Francis continued the legacy of a movement the Vatican ...

Using environmental DNA analysis and traditional fishing techniques, researchers are seeking answers about the current population of axolotls in their habitat. The numbers are alarming.

April 16th has been a day marked by a diverse range of significant historical events that have shaped the world in profound ...

Soon, the Aztecs were using the plant to flavor their ... However, the sale of vanilla was not widespread across Europe in the 16th century, so how did it end up at Prague Castle?

is one of several turquoise objects that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés likely took from the Aztec Empire as treasure in the early 16th century. The mask was carved out of Spanish cedar ...

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer society – began from three epicentres, in the Fertile Crescent, the Indus Valley ...

Traditionalists responded as if Father Bartolomé de Las Casas had returned from the 16th century, to float a ship filled with Aztec priests, Ayacucho caciques, and Mapuche warriors to Seville to ...

Prince Borivoj of the Premyslid Dynasty (probably) started building Prague Castle in AD 880, and over the centuries various ...