The amazing voyages of Vasco da Gama. The man who found the Indies when Columbus did not and brought Europe face-to-face again with Islam. "A chegada de Vasco da Gama a Calicute em 1498," by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists think they have identified the ship that took Vasco da Gama on his final journey into the Indian Ocean. Initially ...

A shipwreck found off the coast of Kenya may have been connected to Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navigator who sailed around Africa to reach India in the late 1400s and early 1500s. The wreckage was ...

The story goes back to Europe's golden age of exploration, when trade routes were just being established to India that would eventually lead to the waterways of European capitals. If the ship found on ...

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday expressed wonder over why Prime Minister Narendra Modi took two years to visit violence-hit Manipur from Delhi, when explorer Vasco da Gama took only ...

Archaeologists believe they’ve found the São Jorge, the famed sunken ship from Vasco da Gama’s final voyage, off the coast of Kenya. The remains of a shipwreck, first spotted on a coral reef between ...

Vasco da Gama revolutionized world trade by becoming the first European to reach Asia by sea in 1498. In many ways, he upstaged Christopher Columbus, who’d been trying to do the same thing in 1492 by ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The 500-year-old wreckage of Portuguese ship piloted by an uncle of explorer Vasco da Gama has been found off the coast of Oman, archaeologists said Tuesday, a ...

The Vasco Da Gama pillar in Malindi town. The pillar is a reminder of the 15th Century voyage of the Portuguese explorers. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard]. Tacked on a coral rock on the shores of the ...