In Old Asturias, a Legacy From the New World
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IN an otherwise perfect hotel, the Palacete de Penalba, in the Asturias region of Spain, there is no elevator - a key issue for us, stroller-pushing tourists.
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A consortium of nonprofits aim to restore sections of the Inca Road, the 500-year-old route that linked the Inca Empire from present-day Colombia to central Chile.
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A stone tablet from Mexico has revealed a 3,000-year-old writing system never before seen, according to a new study. But some archaeologists are crying fraud.
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The new findings are the fruit of 15 years of excavations in the Oaxaca Valley of southern Mexico that have brought to light a remarkably complete series of structures used for religious purposes.
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These sesame seed sized creatures carry a record of hundreds of millions of years of geological history.
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ROSARIO, ARGENTINA.- The Museo Historico Provincial Doctor Julio Marc presents A tour of Spanish Avant-garde. A snapshot of Ramon Gomez de la Serna, through February 20, 2005.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Scientists have found well-preserved fossils of a new dinosaur species that lived 225 million years ago in southern Brazil but had its closest relatives in what is now Europe, Brazilian paleontologists said yesterday.
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Analysis of bones in the cathedral of Seville in southern Spain leaves open the possibility that they are those of the explorer Christopher Columbus, a lead
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Neanderthals survived for thousands of years longer than scientists thought, with small lingering bands finding refuge in a massive cave near the southern tip of Spain, new research suggests.
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The fossil of an ancient species of ape, discovered at a construction site in western Spain, has revealed that great apes went through more evolutionary stages than previously thought.
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Spanish researchers say they have found the remains of an extinct species of great ape that may have been the last ancestor humans shared with gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans.
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The newest Smithsonian museum is gathering ancient ceramics, intricate beadwork and modern art to illustrate the past and present of native peoples spread across the Western Hemisphere for some 20,000 years.
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A new archaeological discovery suggests humans migrated to the hemisphere far earlier than previously thought.
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A new fossil found in Spain may be the closest yet to the common ancestor of all great apes, perhaps including humans, researchers say.
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BREMEN, GERMANY.- A visitor of the Paula-Modersohn-Becker museum looks at a model of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church by Spanish architect and artist Antonio Gaudi, in the northern town of Bremen.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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EL CALABOZ, Tex. -- In the 240 years since the Spanish Crown granted Eloisa Tamez's colonial ancestors title to this flat, grassy expanse along the Rio Grande's northern bank, her family has steadily lost its holdings to the Mexican War of Independence, the U.S. annexation of Texas and the Great ...