Christopher Columbus’ status as a trailblazing explorer is in question — again. A handful of bright blue beads have thrust historians and archaeologists into debate over a new study that may challenge ...

Christopher Columbus may have sailed the ocean blue in 1492, but some tiny blue beads beat him to it, reaching North America a few decades sooner, to become possibly the earliest European-made objects ...

These glass beads might be from Venice. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Brilliantly blue beads from Europe unearthed by ...

Bronze Age bigwigs in what’s now Denmark wore brightly colored glass beads made in the workshops of Egyptian pharaohs and Mesopotamian rulers, a new investigation finds. Trade routes connected Egypt ...

Countries of the world had thousands of years of history that preceded the territory’s discovery, putting it on the map. The United States of America was one such nation, the discovery of which was ...