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

Vasco da Gama didn’t discover the sea route to India, but merely followed an Indian sea merchant from Gujarat named Chandan, who rode a three-four times bigger ship than the Portuguese explorer ...

First English translation of the Roteiro da viagem de Vasco da Gama, believed by some authorities to be the work of Alvaro Velho. Editor favors João de Sá as author rather than Velho. Appendices: Two ...

A map of Vasco da Gama's first voyage Public domain via Wikimedia Commons “It is larger than what we imagined for an early 16th-century ship,” Castro tells Artnet . “It is enormous.

A sunken vessel off the coast of Kenya may be a long-lost ship of famed explorer Vasco da Gama. The São Jorge, a ship that sailed on the explorer’s final voyage, sank in 1524.

MALINDI, KENYA—A Portuguese shipwreck found near the coastal Kenyan town of Malindi in 2013 may be a ship from one of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's voyages in the Indian Ocean some 500 ...