Christopher columbus

Columbus Day churns up a stormy sea of controversy every year: Was Christopher Columbus a gifted navigator or reckless adventurer?

This Encyclopedia Britannica History list provides 5 strange facts about Christopher Columbus and his voyages.

Straight Talk About Christopher Columbus. Europeans acted the way that conquerors always did. We judge them harshly because they spread a then-novel idea: equality.

Did Christopher Columbus did he really prove the world was round? Did he think he had found a new continent? And how was he perceived back home?

The Galata Museum honours pioneering Italians who set sail from Genoa with a spirit of adventure

Christopher Columbus

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Learn about one of the most famous explorers of all times- Christopher Columbus, who he was, his childhood, his explorations, his contributions, and how the world remembers him today.

Different genetic laboratories will analyze samples of the mortal remains of relatives of Pedro Alvarez de Sotomayor, nicknamed Pedro Madruga, exhumed last week from two sarcophagi in the church of the convent of Santo Domingo in Tui, in Galicia (northern Spain), to determine if the remains are in fact those of Christopher Columbus. The quite complex task will be to try to extract DNA from remains buried in the 15th century to match them with the mortal remains of Christopher Columbus or his…

Discover the history and impact of the Age of Exploration, which lasted from the early 15th century to the end of the 17th century.