To locate a straight sea route to India, Dias organised a second, bigger expedition. Vasco da Gama, however, was given charge of this second mission. When asked ‘Why are you here’ after ...

The 500-year-old wreckage of a Portuguese ship piloted by an uncle of famed explorer Vasco da Gama has been ... one of two lost in the storm from da Gama's second voyage to India.

Archaeologists think they have identified the ship that took Vasco da Gama ... of Kenya is da Gama’s 16th-century Sao Jorge. The Portuguese explorer took a pioneering route from Europe into ...

There are some infrastructure projects that take your breath away. From the tallest buildings to the longest roads, there’s something about huge structures that fascinates people. One of them is ...