For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Portuguese chefs Mauro and Pedro Almeida of Casa Maquista in Macau talk about the spice and its role in the world’s first ...

Profits from the sale of those first enslaved Africans led to more Portuguese raids of West Africa. Over 10 years, an estimated 800 slaves came to Lagos through this pre-Middle Passage route.

It starts with one free promotion and costs less in maintenance. It can also build Feitorias, which provide extra gold and production to a city, and also to Portuguese trade routes going to that city.

Archaeologists think they have identified the ship that took Vasco da Gama on his final journey into the Indian Ocean in the 16th century.

The bird we call 'Turkey' faces an identity crisis, known as 'Hindi' in Turkey, adding to its global naming confusion.

The trade began with Portuguese and Spanish traders capturing African people. They transporting them to the American colonies which they had conquered in the 15th Century.

It also sailed the spice route and sank off the coast of Lisbon in 1606. The vessel was found near a military defense complex by Cascais called Fort of Sao Juliao de Barra.