United crowns, bold explorers, and conquests across the seas turned Spain into the world’s first global empire. Its beginnings were as dramatic as its rule ...

Ancestral hero or anti-Spain propaganda? The new Dark Knight is named Yohualli Coatl and battles a Hernán Cortés turned Two-Face in the movie 'Aztec Batman', whose trailer has stirred passions ...

Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these ...