Vasco da Gama's historic voyage from Portugal to India in 1497–1499 established the first direct sea route between Europe and ...

President Donald Trump apparently doesn’t know that Christopher Columbus was arrested, locked in chains and shipped to Spain for trial. Or that he died in virtual obscurity. Trump wants to ...

In 1892—the 400th anniversary of the Columbus voyage—President Benjamin Harrison called for a national celebration of Columbus and his achievements.

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 Orient.

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

Famed explorer Christopher Columbus was not Italian, as traditionally believed, but possibly a Sephardic Jew from Spain who concealed his true heritage to avoid persecution, a new genetic study ...

Columbus may have been genetically Jewish, but that doesn't mean he saw himself that way — or that Jews have cause to celebrate.

Following Columbus: The team trying to rewrite the explorer's route 7 August 2016 How Christopher Columbus became a hate figure for many online 12 October 2015 ...

Since Christopher Columbus is always a hot topic, I thought it might be fun to do some trivia concerning him. There was a great deal of excitement recently with people buying special glasses and ...

Centuries before Columbus set sail to circumnavigate the Earth, the Vikings had already established a settlement in North America. The map shows the journey they would have taken (in red) to get ...

Researchers believe they have reliable evidence that shows Vikings beat Christopher Columbus to the Americas by about 500 years.