Tagliapietra, Davide Guarneri, Irene Keppel, Erica and Sigovini, Marco 2021. After a century in the Mediterranean, the warm-water shipworm Teredo bartschi invades the Lagoon of Venice (Italy), ...

Christopher ... Columbus’s expedition as an opportunity to expand Spain’s trading network into the Indies’ lucrative economy. Proponents of the Catholic Church, the monarchy also hoped the ...

One man, two narratives: 1. Born to a working-class wool weaver in the port city of Genoa, Italy, Cristoforo Colombo apprenticed as a sailor and went to sea as early as age ten. A self-taught and ...

“We have DNA from Christopher Columbus ... the same year that Columbus made his first voyage to the Americas. Now, ...

So too is the Balearic island of Mallorca, with the theory that Columbus was the illegitimate son of the prince of Viana, brother of King Ferdinand, who endorsed his breakthrough voyage.

The US has returned a 500-year-old stolen Christopher Columbus ... landscape and wealth Columbus found when he arrived in the Americas. Columbus' first set foot in the Americas in 1492 The ...

One of the most famous explorers was Christopher Columbus. He lived over 500 years ago. Columbus wanted to travel to China and India, countries known as ‘The Indies’ which were full of wealth.