The first account of the Cayman Islands dates back to the 4th and final voyage of Christopher Columbus who passed the Sister ...

New DNA analysis of remains belonging to direct descendants of Christopher Columbus might have uncovered information about ...

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 ...

Analysis of the anchor reveals that it dates to between 1492 and 1550 and weighs between 545 kilograms and 680 kilograms (1,200 and 1,500 pounds). This was the typical size and weight of a bower ...

In 1999 the Boston Globe printed a guest editorial from a leader of the Massachusetts Historical Society, essentially saying that Boston had no connection to Christopher Columbus, and the statue of ...

There are no less than 60 cities, towns, and counties named after Christopher Columbus in the United States, not the least of which is our nation’s capital, the District of Columbia and, somewhat ...

President Joe Biden issued a proclamation to recognize Oct. 14 as Columbus Day in honor of Christopher Columbus, the 15th century explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa, now part of ...