Secret 500-year-old letters sent by King Ferdinand II of Aragon to one of his military commanders have finally been deciphered. Spain’s Army Museum called in experts from Spain’s intelligence agency, ...

King Ferdinand II used the code to talk about war strategy. The Army Museum confirmed to ABC News that these codes were used during the wars of Italy by the "Catholic King" : "These two letters now ...

Catherine of Aragon had a famously fraught time as Queen, but for all the turmoil that her marriage to King Henry VIII entailed, Catherine was not the only woman in her family to find tribulations ...

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For over 500 years, four letters between King Ferdinand of Aragon and one of his commanders, Gonzalo Fernandez de Córdoba, have puzzled historians. They used a completely unique code with more than ...

It is a Columbus Day ritual to disagree over the legacy of Christopher Columbus. Defenders of Columbus’s place on our calendars and monuments seek to honor the achievements of an intrepid explorer.

When Christopher Columbus landed in the West Indies in October 1492, he laid claim to the islands in the name of his patrons, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, even though he was aware that ...

The Jewish origin of the Hapsburg dynasty has historically been proven without a doubt, declares an article in the local “Arbeiterzeitung.” This article traces the ancestry of the Hapsburgs not only ...