Portugal could claim lands east of this line, while Spain could lay claim ... The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama ...

An engaging account by Roger Crowley of the early trade wars between Spain and Portugal serves as a reminder of how money, greed and exploitation continues to shape the world ...

From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and granted more power than their counterparts back home.

An astonishing discovery reveals a 16th-century document containing instructions for space flight, centuries before humanity ventured into space. The Sibiu Manuscript, dating back to 1555 ...

Although much of Marbella is defined by its glitzy resort-town trappings, the Marbella Old Quarter – also known as Casco antiguo de Marbella – gives travelers a taste of old Spain. Here you'll ...

The Canary Islands archipelago is a string of seven islands, closer to Morocco than to their mother country Spain. The ...

A team of computer scientists, astronomers and historians in Berlin has used machine-learning applications to learn more ...

There existed an ongoing tradition of inlay and incrustation in Spain ever since the new minbar was commissioned by the Umayyad caliph al-Hakam II in the tenth century for the Great Mosque of Cordoba ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

Dealing with crime within a local community had been simple in the medieval era, as crime was less common than it became in the 16th century. Communities had been so small, by modern comparisons ...

Natch. However, over the weekend, Ari reminded us just how good of a character she can play with a hilarious 16th-century transformation. Just short of 48 hours ago, Ariana took to US TV screens ...