A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

Christopher Columbus may have been the first European to land on Puerto Rico's shores, but touring San Juan will tell you ...

Les Stone/Polaris Christopher Columbus, anchored somewhere along the island's Atlantic coast, upped sails to begin the long voyage back to Spain with news he had discovered a western route to the ...

Abbe Dubois established a St Mary’s Chapel, the first Catholic church in Bangalore Cantonment, in an area called Blackpully ...

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The explorer, Christopher Columbus ... and nor did he seek to prove that the Earth was round. So, how did Columbus’ voyages change the world? What motivated a young man from Italy to endanger ...

Simon Park, who teaches Portuguese history and literature at Oxford University, aims to recast the early period of European exploration as a story of disasters rather than successes. His target is ...

The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.