The first peach pits were brought to North America by Spanish explorers, but Indigenous communities were the ones responsible for helping the fruit take root. Researchers at Penn State found that ...

Seymour escaped with the roughly 40-pound cannon, which she said was probably built in the early 1500s and was carried by Spanish explorers to North America a few decades later. Seymour ...

It was an electrifying statement—Spanish explorers who were scouring the New World for Native American treasure had heard persistent tales of the fantastic wealth of the so-called Seven Cities ...