Discover why Ridley Scott believes his Christopher Columbus biopic 1492: Conquest of Paradise failed at the box office.

In 1513, the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León made it to Florida. It turns out, this was the indirect fault of ...

After weathering nearly a decade of rejection and failure, in 1492 Colombo ... led three little wooden ships across an ocean and changed the course of history? Or was Columbus a greedy psychopath ...

Unusually the nickname was used more popularly than the official, often religious, name of the ship. While the ... already sunk on December 25, 1492, after having run aground. The end seemed imminent ...

Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer credited for connecting the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) and the New World (North America and South America). Born in Genoa, Italy ...

More than 500 years after it sank, the wreckage of Christopher Columbus' famous ship, the Santa Maria ... The Bahamas after sailing from Spain in 1492. While he and his team were there, the ...

The King of Spain paid for three ships. The Pinta, the Niña and the Santa Maria. In 1492, Columbus set sail. A few months later, the crew spotted land. Columbus thought he had reached the Indies.

Read on to discover history's most iconic ships, from Darwin's HMS Beagle to the legendary Titanic and more... Dating from ...