One night as Prince Henry of Portugal lay in bed it was revealed to him that he would render a great service to our Lord by the discovery of the said Ethiopias...in these lands so much gold and rich ...
Famed Portuguese explorer and navigator Ferdinand Magellan was killed on an island in the Philippines in 1521 while on a Spanish-sponsored expedition to what were known at the time by Europeans as the ...
Central Brazil is a vast green wedge of almost unexplored land. Seventeenth-century Portuguese explorers staggered out of its jungles bringing tales of a great lost City of Gold in a Garden of Eden.