As Smithsonian reports, a new study published in the journal American Antiquity links America’s first domestic cats to a 16th-century shipwreck ... Florida. The Spanish vessel was one of ...

Soil was loaded onto Spanish galleons traveling from Acapulco, Mexico, to Manila, Philippines, in the 16th century. The soil, needed for ballast on empty vessels, likely also included tropical ...

The 16th-century Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales had an eye for the dramatic. In one lamentation scene, Jesus slumps against his mother’s arm, his limp corpse gray and speckled with ...

As Smithsonian reports, a new study published in the journal American Antiquity links America’s first domestic cats to a 16th ...