A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about North America more than a century before his 1492 voyage. The revelation ...

Columbus brought syphilis to Europe -- or did he? A recent study now indicates that Europeans could already have been infected with this sexually transmitted disease before the 15th century. In ...

The people of Genoa knew of the Americas more than 150 years before their most famous son arrived in the New World, according to research out of the University of Milan. A Genoese friar recorded an ...

(WHTM) — The short answer? A lot of people. To say that Christopher Columbus is somewhat controversial is kind of like saying the planet Jupiter is somewhat large. To some, he is the “Admiral of the ...

Florida’s past didn’t begin in 1492; it stretches back over 14,000 years. Long before Columbus set sail, Indigenous communities were building, trading, hunting, and shaping the land in ways that ...

A Roman-style head found in a Mexican grave has prompted theories that Europeans might've arrived in the New World much earlier than once thought. Was there a New World order we didn’t know about? The ...

The Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed. Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: Before Columbus Foundation has hosted 9 events in the C-SPAN Video ...