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 ...

In 1998, a sunken 16th-century Portuguese ship was discovered off the coast of Oman. Nearly two decades later, excavations have revealed that the vessel was likely once part of famed explorer Vasco da ...

Vasco da Gama was a highly successful Portuguese sailor and explorer during the Age of Exploration. He was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India, around the Cape of Good Hope. His ...

Marine archaeologists say they've found the earliest ship from Europe's Age of Discovery ever uncovered — the wreck of a vessel from Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's brutal second armada to India ...

The wreckage of a ship discovered off the coast of Kenya may have been from legendary explorer Vasco da Gama’s final voyage across the Indian Ocean, archaeologists say in a new study. Researchers say ...

The famous voyager who blazed new trade routes to India spent most of his life in Portugal’s Alentejo region, but visitors need the persistence of an explorer to follow his trail. The church’s heavy ...

Vasco da Gama was the first European to open a sea-based trade route to India. In an epic voyage, he sailed around Africa's Cape of Good Hope and succeeded in breaking the monopoly of Arab and ...