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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine a world where the United States never existed as a single nation. Instead of one country stretching from the Atlantic ...

Researchers have found ancient DNA belonging to the syphilis pathogen in 2,000-year-old human bones unearthed in Brazil. It marked the discovery of the earliest known genomic evidence of Treponema ...

Researchers have discovered the genetic material of the pathogen Treponema pallidum in the bones of people who died in Brazil 2,000 years ago. This is the oldest verified discovery of this pathogen ...

Researchers have established the exact year Europeans were first present in North America in a study published Wednesday, dating the Viking presence in Newfoundland, Canada, to exactly 1,000 years ago ...

1491: The Untold Story of the Americas before Columbus is based on the book “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus” by Charles C. Mann (Knopf, 2005). It brings to life the complexity, ...

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 ...