Sitting on top of a hill in the Andalusian city of Granada, this large complex of palaces, gardens, and fortress walls is not ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229-foot)- long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be ...

This religious and military conquest was not just a battle for territory,it was a battle for faith, identity, and cultural dominance. Dive into the complexities of the Reconquista, exploring how ...

After the conquest of North Africa and the conversion of the Berbers to Islam, the Arabs were frustrated that they faced the Sea (the Atlantic Ocean) with no more lands to conquer.

Outstanding Universal Value Brief synthesis The property of the Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada, stands on two adjacent hills, separated by the river Darro. Rising above the modern lower ...

Granada’s dominant attraction, the Alhambra, captures the region’s history of conquest and reconquest: its brute Alcazaba fort and tower, the elaborate Palacios Nazaries (where Washington Irving, much ...

The DNA secrets of a medieval cave-dwelling community Isolated community marked by inbreeding, violence, and devout worship.

As for Boabdil, he saw Isabel and Ferdinand declare war on him again, capture him once more, and release him again… to resume and complete the conquest of Granada in November 1491. They allowed the ...

This culminated in 1492, when Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I won the Granada War and completed Spain’s conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.

She finds that European empires consistently used what she calls a “choreography of conquest” to amass power over the 500-year period between 1400 and 1900. There was a “rumbling on of raiding, ...

In her new book, “They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence” (Princeton University Press), Yale historian Lauren Benton looks at the periods between those well-studied markers to examine the ...