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

The expulsion of Jews from Spain occurred in 1492, the same year that Columbus made his first voyage to the Americas. Now, ...

Columbus made four voyages to America, during which he explored an astonishingly large area of the Caribbean and a part of the northern coast of South America. At every island the first thing he ...

Les Stone/Polaris Christopher Columbus, anchored somewhere along the island's Atlantic coast, upped sails to begin the long voyage back to ... Moore first visited Haiti in 1964 as a volunteer ...

This was his second voyage to claim lands for the rulers of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella. When Columbus discovered Puerto Rico he had many more ships and men with him then he had on his first ...

Proponents of the Catholic Church, the monarchy also hoped the voyage would help spread Christianity into the East. In August 1492, Columbus’s expedition set sail with three ships: the Niña ...