Fidel Castro: Did you mean...?

A gouache on paper painting titled Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. The tense stand-off that brought the world to the brink of nuclear...

The Jade Museum (Spanish: Museo del Jade y de la Cultura Precolombina) in San José, Costa Rica houses the world's largest collection of ancient jade from the Americas. With nearly 7,000 pieces in its collection...

Francisco Pizarro (c. 1478-1541) was a conquistador who led the Spanish conquest of the Inca civilization from 1532. With only a small group of men, Pizarro took advantage of his superior weapons and the fact that the Incas were...

Diego de Almagro (c. 1475-1538) was a Spanish conquistador who was second-in-command to Francisco Pizarro (c. 1478-1541) during his expedition that attacked the Inca civilization from 1531. Almagro then led his own expedition...

Abandoned Hacienda, The Silver Mound, Taxco, Mexico.

The so-called Vénus de Milo is perhaps one of the most iconic works of Western art of any period. The statue of the goddess was found on the Aegean island of Milos, to which she owes her name, on the...

This incomplete funerary stela with an inscription in the Celtiberian language and Western Celtiberian script comes from Coruña de Conde (Peñalba de Castro), Burgos in Spain. The inscription transcribes as "Kaabaarinos,"...

Discover what it took to build the Panama Canal, and how this colossal construction project changed the region. — In the 19th century, the California gold rush brought thousands...

This very brief video is explicitly auditory. It demonstrates the sound of an Etruscan clay rattle from Vulci, Italy (end of 8th century BCE). Sound sample played by Emiliano Li Castro.