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

Christopher Columbus was a man of contradictions; he professed God spoke to him to direct his travels, yet after four voyages he still could not recognise that he had 'discovered' a New World.

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.

For Mary Ann Whitley, who wrote the book "Ohio Tales of the Titanic," the Buckeye State's connection to the Titanic runs deep.

After the pathbreaking voyages of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama had opened ... the good Abbe found himself frustrated at every turn. His 1823 book Letters on the state of Christianity ...

including Sir Isaac Newton’s early papers and a letter from Christopher Columbus’s maiden voyage, died on March 14 at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. The cause was diastolic heart failure ...

"In it he declared that, as a man of his time, Christopher Columbus and his contemporaries ... even publishing a book 'Earth not a Globe' in 1865. "In 1861, Samuel married a 15-year-old and ...

This year’s slate of films promises a little something for everyone. With a mix of highly anticipated comic book reboots, ...

the ship used by Christopher Columbus. Alamy For four centuries, Spain’s prodigious naval power built an empire that stretched around the globe. But not every military or merchant voyage ended well.

Dark Laboratory’s attempt to view the climate crisis through the lens of early colonialism makes some valid points but fails to develop a coherent analysis, argues John Clarke Throughout the chapters ...