The first Jews arrived in what would become the United States as early as the 1650s, when a small group of Sephardi refugees ...
An auto-da-fé − a public punishment for heretics − in San Bartolome Otzolotepec, in present-day Mexico. Museo Nacional de Arte via Wikimedia Commons Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: ...
Over the past two centuries, European and North American adventurers and archaeologists have uncovered hundreds of thousands of texts in the Near East that have provided a fascinating context in which ...
Archaeologists from the University of Haifa have uncovered the earliest evidence of bronze production in the Southern Levant, dating back about 3,000 years, in a site that might have been part of the ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition? This ...
Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. This tale became widespread around the late 19th century, when large numbers of ...