Premiering in Cannes, where Diaz’s most awarded film, Norte, the End of History, played in Un Certain Regard back in 2013, ...

Consider the Spanish conquest of the Americas alongside Israel’s assault on Gaza. In many ways, the two events, separated by ...

This small insect, native to the Americas, was used by the Aztecs to create a vivid red dye, which would eventually ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

The incursion into Europe was, however, an isolated one. The Mongol generals were ordered to redeploy and join Genghis Khan in his conquest of northern China some 3,700 miles away. The mission ...

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new film which re-examines the discovery of the Philippines by European explorers ...