Vasco da Gama, a pioneering explorer, sailed from Europe to the Indian Ocean in 1497, with his ship being the first to go round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.

The evidence thus far suggests the ship is likely the galleon São Jorge, which was part of a fleet of ships that set off on Vasco da Gama's final voyage. Among the 20 ships that embarked on this ...

Marine archaeologists think they've discovered a lost Portuguese ship from explorer Vasco da Gama's fleet off the coast of present-day Oman, more than 500 years after it sank in a deadly storm. A ...

Marine archaeologists say they've found the earliest ship from Europe's Age of Discovery ever uncovered — the wreck of a vessel from Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's brutal second armada to ...

But that silver coin -- forged in 1499, after da Gama's first voyage to India -- helps date the wreckage. Archaeologists been excavating the site for three years, uncovering thousands of artefacts ...

This Sunken Ship May Be the 1524 Wreckage From Vasco da Gama’s Final Voyage If correctly identified, the ship would be one of the earliest European wreckages in the Indian Ocean. Image courtesy ...

Da Gama embarked on a second voyage to India in 1502. He traveled with a fleet of 20 ships , and left five of them behind to watch over the Portuguese factories that dotted India’s southwest coast.

The navigational device came from the wreckage of a ship in the Portuguese armada that had been part of explorer Vasco da Gama’s second voyage to India from 1502 to 1503.

The wreckage of a ship discovered off the coast of Kenya may have been from legendary explorer Vasco da Gama’s final voyage across the Indian Ocean, archaeologists say in a new study ...

Researchers say the ship, discovered in 2013 in waters off a Kenyan coastal town, is a Portuguese vessel and may have been Da Gama’s Sao Jorge, which sank in 1524 – the year the famed explorer ...