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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Sunken ship may hold secrets of Vasco da Gama’s last voyage, archaeologists say
“The recent discovery of a Portuguese shipwreck in Malindi, Kenya, could be a galleon from Vasco da Gama’s last voyage,” scientists wrote in the latest study, published in the Journal of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...