Bartolome de Las Casas

Was America Discovered Before Columbus?
Alvin M. Josephy Jr. | April 1955

This nautical chart, lost for five centuries, gives evidence that Portuguese captains had found the New World by 1424

An aged nautical chart of 1424 shows what an outstandi Read more >>
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