"Hispano" is an identity unique to New Mexico and southern Colorado. It defines people who consider themselves to be descendants of the Spanish conquistadors that arrived in the 1500s. Hispanos ...

The Spanish refining process involved pulverizing silver ore, containing both lead and silver, into powder, which sent metallic dust into the atmosphere. The powder was mixed with mercury.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found gruesome evidence of Spanish conquistadors slaughtering at least a dozen women and children in an Aztec village after the inhabitants sacrificed and ate Spaniards they ...

When the Spanish conquered South America in the 16th century they took over the Incas’ mines and soon began to pump clouds of lead dust over the Andes. The silver the conquistadors sent back ...