Estevanico Dorantes was of Berber origin and enslaved by the Spanish. In 1527 he was part of a Spanish expedition led by Pánfilo de Narváez that set out from Spain to explore the Gulf Coast of North America. The expedition was disastrous and Dorantes was one of the few survivors. He spent the next eight years wandering through the interior of North America before finally reaching Mexico City in 1536.
A new examination of skeletons found in southern Egypt indicates that the first episodes of violence would not have been exceptional events. For specialists, the sharing of the same environment between several cultural groups would have favored conflicts. Archival photograph illustrating the doubl
The Mayans that inhabited the Mopán Valley in pre-Hispanic times (Guatemala) built urban settlements of remarkable architecture. Among them stand out La Blanca and Chilonché , investigated for more than fourteen years by the La Blanca Project, under the direction of Dr. Cristina Vidal Lorenzo from
If we talk about a famous wall built in Great Britain to block the way to enemies, inevitably Hadrians Wall, erected in the 2nd century AD, comes to mind. in order to defend against Pictish incursions. Someone may also remember the Wall of Antonino Pio, two decades later. But there was a third wall
Fossils prove the existence of life in its heyday, but in the case of Dr. Adam Beringer, they wrote nothing but its demise. Nearly 300 years ago, he discovered an assemblage of plant and animal fossils near Würzburg in southern Germany, marking the end of his prosperous career. These fossils became