For $2 a go, tourists can purchase sticks of dynamite and experience them exploding in the “nightmarish” subterranean world created by silver miners in Potosí, one of the world’s highest cities.

With its distinct natural resources, its openness to the outside world, and the hierarchical society it fostered, the period ...

Marco Polo (1254--1324) is likely the most famous merchant who ever lived. Even small children know his name, thanks to the ...

El Tío is usually red, decorated with colorful ribbons around his neck, and frequently portrayed with a large, erect penis: a symbol of fertility. “We are very polytheistic, we believe in ...

"Could the holiest site in Islam, the Kaaba in Mecca, have once been a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva? What if the ...

For millennia, humanity lived nomadically, practicing Devavad (Polytheism), which saw supernatural qualities ... developing between the fifth and ninth centuries through reinterpreting the ancient ...