Spanish Conquistadors, from Columbus to Cortés, reshaped the Americas, immensely impacting Indigenous communities and laying the groundwork for today's nations.

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History have announced that two 500-year-old iron anchors could belong to the ships of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.

For hundreds of years, history left us wondering what disease killed the Aztecs in the mid-1500s. Many assumed the Aztecs were one of many Central American groups to be wiped out by European diseases like smallpox. However, DNA testing...