Guillermo Altares

The largest mammal ever to roam Earth competes in our imagination with the dinosaurs as it coexisted with humans until only 4,000 years ago. Books, films and a grand exhibition have brought back the giants of the Ice Age bearing a cryptic warning: was the climate or human behavior the cause of their extinction?

In a book, the journalist Taina Tervonen recounts the endless search for those who disappeared during the conflict, through a forensic anthropologist and a researcher

‘1923’, ‘Alaska Daily’, ‘Three Pines’ and ‘The English’ are among many recent series to have addressed the past and present suffering of American Indians

An exhibition in Paris tells the story of a French archaeological mission in Central Asia, which located the easternmost Hellenic city, founded by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC

‘The Oppermann Brothers’, Lion Feuchtwanger’s seminal book about the German Reich, has been republished in the US to great acclaim

The world’s leading literary agent speaks about Salman Rushdie, Stephen King, Donald Trump and the e-commerce giant

The British historian, known for his monumental biographies of the Nazi dictator, has written a new book about leaders who changed history

The Roman rulers used gladiator games to entertain the public – but these battles also served as political theater

History remembers the famed ‘philosopher-king’ as a wise and just ruler, but one of the most brutal and well-documented acts of imperial atrocity took place under his reign: the torture and persecution of the martyrs of Lyon, devoured by wild beasts in AD 177

They were spaces to share stories, jokes, and even a sponge attached to a stick that they used to clean themselves. “If you want to understand the culture, look at its bathrooms,” says the scholar Mary Beard

The memory of Nazi extermination is losing its last living witnesses. Authors such as Primo Levi, Liana Millu or Imre Kertész are already part of a culture that will no longer write itself in the first person

Putin is using the commemoration of the end of World War II on May 9 to justify the invasion of Ukraine as he replicates Stalin’s old obsessions

In a new book, the Cambridge scholar analyzes how laughter help us understand Roman society

Over the centuries all kinds of pretexts have been used to justify confrontation. While motives may be obscure, what is clear is that the consequences are impossible to control or foresee

Over 70 Spanish scholars have signed a manifesto underscoring the positive aspects of a period spanning nearly 1,000 years, including advances in law and politics

Seven historians analyze the ongoing impact of the May 2011 social protests against austerity and corruption, the most visible manifestation of which was the sit-ins at Madrid’s Puerta del Sol

New research has highlighted the similarities between the subspecies and ‘homo sapiens,’ questioning in the process what it means to be human

During the toughest months of the pandemic, Juan Altares suffered all the complications of what was then a completely unknown disease. This is a day-by-day account of how his family got through it

Far-right parties like Vox in Spain use doubtful historical facts to justify their vision of a modern-day Islamic invasion

Experts warn that Vox could shift the debate on key issues like immigration after the group won 24 seats in Congress

One of the most powerful symbols of Europe will overcome the fire, just as it has resisted other disasters throughout the centuries

The verdict increasing the sentence against Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic reopens the debate on the difficulties of proving the most serious crime in international law

The comprehensive event has received many anti-Semitic threats before its inauguration