A Portuguese-language edition of Sharjah ruler Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi’s epic history of the Portuguese Empire’s activities in the Gulf and beyond has been launched in Lisbon. The ...

Portuguese King Manuel I (who ruled from 1495-1521), commissioned this Belgian tapestry to commemorate explorer Vasco da Gama's "discovery" of India in 1498. Da Gama is the figure at the left, ...

British historian Roger Crowley specializes in an era mostly forgotten by Westerners: the epic maritime struggle between the Christian West and the Muslim Middle East in the 1400s and 1500s.