It sparked a Spanish gold ... in the former Inca Empire would be revived in 1545 with the discovery of rich silver mines at Potosí (in modern-day Bolivia). For another century, these would ...

Discover Gio Ponti’s architectural journey in Milan, from neoclassical buildings to modern masterpieces, and his legacy today.

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Cortés has given way to Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump. A new age of conquest is upon us. Greg Grandin This article originally ...

Modern imperialism reached its height in Europe’s golden 19th century, when Kipling wrote The White Man’s Burden and Empire-Builder Cecil Rhodes laid his hand on the map of Africa and ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal ... as expedition artist—defied Spanish claims to North America and arrived ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...

A stunning Spanish galleon has sailed into Cork City for European Maritime Day (EMD). The 16th-century replica ... ships that once served the Spanish Empire, crossed the Atlantic, and fought ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Journalist and writer Clodagh Finn joins Kate to explore the life of Lady Betty, the Irish executioner of the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as some other Irish women who have defied the ...