For example, the Olympic runner Chionis of Laconia apparently also had a strict diet of figs when he was training for his ...

Local chefs, restaurants, and even museums are telling the story of Indigenous and colonial histories through food.

Uncover the history of the chorreada, a beloved dish in Costa Rica that emphasizes the importance of corn in the culture.

If you're traveling on a budget, a city in the Peruvian Andes is a perfect choice for lovers of ancient history, Spanish ...

ASHBOURNE, England (AP) — This ancient form of soccer has a rule forbidding ... up burgers to throngs of spectators from a street food truck. “You’ve just got to get in there and be rough.

But the Inca, whose world came to an end with the arrival of the Spanish in the 1530s, were merely the last in a long line of ancient Andean cultures, including the Moche, Chimu and Nazca ...

The historical hall of fame tends to posit Hiram Bingham as the hero who located Peru’s foremost Inca site ... so effectively that all signs of the ancient city had vanished come the medieval ...

A New Zealand man was apprehended Sunday night after jumping into the celebrated Trevi Fountain in central Rome.

In South America, there’s a food revolution going on in Bolivia, where elite restaurants are getting international notice and ancient Inca and Aymara traditions are finding their way into modern ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons suggests they were a motley crew of mixed origin with a few connections to the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia.