I begin to feel like a broken record, but Matt Yglesias has a cool post up about “Game of Thrones” and (what else) monetary policy: As you watch members of House Lannister and House Tyrell ...

Since early Spanish colonial chronicles of the 16th century first alleged the existence of a lost city of gold in the depths ...

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 ...

Fans of Monty Python's Life of Brian will be familiar with John Cleese's laughable dismissal of Roman influence over Judea.

At the end of the 16th century, Spain and Portugal dominated the South American continent and parts of the Caribbean. They had also gotten a foothold in Central America and the southern portions ...

The Spanish School, 16th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Since 1998 the record price for ...

"I have always wanted to share my works with the public," the Spanish-born millionaire businessman ... to mid-January and is ...

Much of what is known of Aztec society comes from a book written by Bernardino de Sahagún, a Spanish friar living near what is now Mexico City. During the second part of the 16th century ...

Built in 1530, a Spanish church located among the wooded ... that that church's bell tower was added at the end of the 18th century when the building's height was increased. Now, the bell tower ...

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 LESSER-KNOWN theme park in Spain is set to get a huge new multi-million-pound rollercoaster and two new swimming pools.

In a nautical misstep that could've been ripped from the pages of history, the Nao Trinidad, a 16th-century Spanish ship ...