Vasco da Gama, a pioneering explorer ... of sea travel during the 16th century. The ship Sao Jorge, captained by Fernando de ...

While the ship’s identity remains unconfirmed, evidence suggests it could be the San Jorge, a vessel from Vasco da Gama’s armada that sank in 1524. The significance of this discovery cannot be ...

They write that the vessel ... A map of Vasco da Gama's first voyage Public domain via Wikimedia Commons “It is larger than what we imagined for an early 16th-century ship,” Castro tells ...

Why Trust Us? A sunken vessel off the coast of Kenya may be a long-lost ship of famed explorer Vasco da Gama. The São Jorge, a ship that sailed on the explorer’s final voyage, sank in 1524.

A ship's bell, one of the 2,800 individual artifacts ... in the "discovery" of the Americas in 1492, but it was Vasco da Gama who ultimately established the Carreira da India, or India Route ...

If confirmed, the sunken vessel would be one of the earliest ... 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 journey ...

Here’s how it works. 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 ...

Two ships, heedlessly anchored on the exposed ... which doomed part of a fleet led by the legendary Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. He’d internalized everything he could find about the ...

Vasco da Gama ... was also an explorer. Da Gama learned to navigate in the navy, which he joined as soon as he was old enough. In 1497, da Gama was appointed to command a ship with the goal ...

As Jennifer Ouellette at Ars Technica reports, a disc found on one of Vasco da Gama ... t just any ship. When the wreck was initially found in 1998, it became the earliest vessel from the ...