Dead for 500 Years, Vasco da Gama Became a Myth in Portugal, but His Biography Is Little Known
Vasco da Gama is believed to have been born in 1469 in Sines and died in 1524 in Cochin, where the Indian state of Kerala is ...
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500 years on, Vasco da Gama hailed in Lisbon, ignored in Kochi
History appears to be overlooked at St Francis Church in Fort Kochi, with no events marking 500 years since Vasco da Gama's death. Post-colonial perspectives often view da Gama negatively ...
Daily Express1 个月
Incredible shipwreck discovered off Africa could finally solve 500-year-old mystery
A mysterious shipwreck found off the coast of Kenya may be a lost galleon taken by famed explorer Vasco da Gama on his final voyage to India. The Portuguese noble, who was the first European to ...
来自MSN1 个月
Archaeologists think they've found one of Vasco da Gama's ships off the coast of Kenya
Vasco da Gama would travel this route three more times in his life, including a final journey in 1524, the year of his death, during which he likely died from malaria, Phys.org reports. Biography ...
来自MSN1 个月
The 500-year-old sunken ship that may hold the secret to Vasco da Gama's last voyage
A sunken ship may hold the secret to Vasco da Gama's last voyage more than five centuries ago. The wreckage, discovered off the coast of Kenya in 2013, has been identified as a Portuguese vessel ...