Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer credited for connecting the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) and the New World (North America ... find a westward route to China ...

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

We need not deride Columbus' reluctance to give up the world that he knew from books. Only idiots escape entirely from the world that the past bequeaths. The discovery of America opened a new ...

Christopher Columbus is widely known as the first European ... Instead, Italian explorer John Cabot is credited as the discoverer of North America in 1497 under the commission of King Henry ...

One thing we can say for certain is that finding the continent of America was a huge event for Europeans, and that is down to Christopher Columbus.