Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An auto-da-fé − a public punishment for heretics − in San Bartolome Otzolotepec, in present-day Mexico. Museo Nacional de Arte via ...

MADRID, March 16 (Reuters) - Spain's King Felipe VI acknowledged abuses in his country's colonial past on Monday, a rare ...

In the late 1700s, Indigenous peoples in the Spanish colonies of the Andes were forced to work for the Spanish. They tilled the land, worked in the textile mills and the mines. Those that didn’t faced ...

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Skulls and dental decoration patterns for the three African individuals. The skeletons are part of the collection of San José de los Naturales, guarded at the Osteology Laboratory of the Post Graduate ...

There are few better places that illustrate the impact of the Spanish conquest of Latin America than the Plaza de Armas in Cuzco, Peru. Cathedrals with foundations of perfectly hewn Incan stone sit ...

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