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The 17th-century cabildo of Salta, Argentina. The cabildo was a local council established in towns during the Spanish colonial period.

A digital reconstruction Temple B in the Area Sacra di Largo Argentina, Rome. The reconstruction is based on how the temple may have appeared when it was built in 101 BCE. Made by NeoMam Studios and THISISRENDER in collaboration with Expedia...

The Inca road system formed a network known as the royal highway or qhapaq ñan, which became an invaluable part of the Inca empire. Roads facilitated the movement of armies, people, and goods across plains, deserts, and mountains. They connected...

The Inca civilization (c. 1400-1533 CE) is among the most vital of South America in terms of its cultural influence and legacy. The Inca began as a small tribe who steadily grew in power to conquer other peoples all down the coast from Columbia...

La Doncella, "The maiden", one of the three mummies of Inca children sacrificed c. 1500 and found in 1999 near the top of the Llullaillaco volcano, on the Argentina–Chile border. Museum of High Altitude Archaeology, Salta, Argentina.

Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), a lieutenant-colonel in the Nazi SS, was responsible for organising the transportation of Jewish people and other victims of Nazism to concentration, labour, and death camps. Eichmann played a key role in the Holocaust...

The apparatus of colonial government in the Spanish Empire consisted of multiple levels, starting with the monarchy and Council of the Indies at the top and moving down to the viceroy, audiencias, mayors, and local councils. The system was...

An aerial view of Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil.

A Dun Horse photographed by Javier Prazak from Argentina.

The false passport which Adolf Eichmann (1906-62) used to escape from Europe to Argentina in 1950. Eichmann had been a senior member of the SS and a key figure in the transportation of Jewish people to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.