Vasco da Gama's historic voyage from Portugal to India in 1497–1499 established the first direct sea route between Europe and ...

Who was Vasco da Gama? A Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail directly to India is the usual answer. But, Paris-based historian J B P More disagrees with this history textbook ...

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 ...

Vasco da Gama didn’t discover the sea route to India, but merely followed an Indian sea merchant from Gujarat named Chandan, who rode a three-four times bigger ship than the Portuguese explorer ...

Before Vasco da Gama set foot in India on 27 May 1498, the trade route from India to the West, known as the spice route, had to traverse tricky seas, hostile winds, perilous deserts, regions of ...

'Vasco da Gama himself indulged in some of the most heinous crimes. On October 1, 1502, he mercilessly ordered the killing of 700 innocent Malabar pilgrims. Half the pilgrims were women and ...

A research says that the trade in spices did not begin with the arrival of Vasco da Gama in India in 1498.

New Delhi, December 18: Globally, the trade in spices did not begin with the arrival of Vasco da Gama in India in 1498 as is widely believed, according to a research just out.

The amazing voyages of Vasco da Gama. The man who found the Indies when Columbus did not and brought Europe face-to-face again with Islam.

The International Forum for Cultural Heritage and Tradition (IFCHAT) remembered the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama on the 519th anniversary of his discovery of the sea route from Europe to ...