Marine archaeologists take measurements of the anchors - the biggest is almost 4m (13 ft) long Two 500-year-old iron ship anchors have been discovered on Mexico's Gulf Coast, potentially offering ...

Among them was the conquistador Hernando Cortes, who led massacres in Mexico ... which he deemed heretical. Yet four years later, Landa wrote a manuscript about the Maya world called "Relation ...

After this, Cortes replied to Cuauhtémoc that he greatly appreciated everything he had done, and that his actions claimed to be more good than bad, and that what happened was past.

The history of exploration spans centuries ... overthrew the Aztec Empire in 1521. Hernan Cortes' accomplishments included ...

and explorer. After serving as an apprentice, Cook eventually joined the British Navy and, at age 29, was promoted to ship’s ...

The U.S. has observed the holiday since 1937, commemorating the explorer’s 1492 arrival in ... genocide and exploitation of the conquest 500 years ago. As a historian of Latin America, I ...

We have DNA from Hernando Colón ... existed in Brazil more than 2,000 years before the explorer set sail for the new world. Kerttu Majander, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Basel ...

The Italian explorer who set out across the Atlantic ... discussions by pointing to a peculiar document drafted several years after Columbus' death that would have greater repercussions for ...

We live half the year in Coastal North Carolina and half is SW Florida, so our boat commutes between the two. Switching from an F-150 to the Explorer I was concerned, but the Explorer handled the ...

Since 1937, the U.S. has observed the holiday on the second Monday of the month, commemorating the explorer’s 1492 arrival in ...

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Since 1937, the U.S. has observed the holiday on the second Monday of the month, commemorating the explorer’s 1492 arrival ... of the conquest 500 years ago. As a historian of Latin America ...