Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares made the remarks at a press conference inaugurating the sprawling exhibition ...

Leprosy is one of the oldest human diseases and originated in Eurasia or Africa. A new study has found a different species of leprosy-causing bacteria existed in the Americas before European ...

Christopher Columbus and other early European explorers were best known for the “new” lands they discovered and the people ...

Scientists say a species of bacteria rewrites the history of when an infectious and potentially deadly disease first arrived in the Americas. And it was long before the arrival of European explorers.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt designated Columbus Day, which was originally celebrated on Oct. 12, as a national ...