1492. They did not know that their island, in what would become the Bahamas, had been spotted by Spanish explorers led by a Genoese man named Christopher Columbus. And they did not know that in ...

A Spanish TV documentary has claimed the explorer Christopher ... journal and therefore cannot be verified. Additionally, experts say it’s not possible for genetic analysis to determine Columbus ...

marking Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas in 1492. The Italian explorer has traditionally been lauded in school classrooms as the "discoverer" of the Americas. In more recent years ...

Was Christopher Columbus a heroic explorer or a villainous murderer? It depends on who you ask. The tussle over how or whether the United States should commemorate the Italian navigator’s 1492 ...

Christopher Columbus was likely ... research will appear in an international scientific journal in the near future. Researchers who study Columbus say the purported findings are of only limited ...

Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th ... the voyage would help spread Christianity into the East. In August 1492, Columbus’s expedition set sail with three ships: the Niña, Pinta, and ...

scientists say they are ready to reveal the truth about the origins of Christopher Columbus. The explorer reached the Americas in 1492 with the support of the Spanish Crown. But although ...

Famed explorer Christopher Columbus was likely Spanish ... to either convert to Catholicism or leave the country in 1492, the year Columbus landed in the Americas. Announcing the study's results ...