Bartolomeu Dias Born c. 1450, Portugal Died 1500, Off the Cape of Good Hope, Africa Bartolomeu Dias’s pioneering voyage around the southern tip of Africa, which came to be called the Cape of Good Hope, opened a sea route from Europe to India. This...

c. 1450-1500 Portuguese Mariner and Navigator Bartolomeu Dias was the first mariner to round Africa's Cape of Good Hope, opening up a coveted sea route to the West Indies for Portugal. In the latter part of his life, he took part in the...

The Portuguese Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450-1500) lies at a crossroad in the history of exploration. For more than 50 years before he set sail to what would become the Cape of Good Hope, Portugal had explored to its own profit along most of the western...

Bartolomeu Dias, sometimes Bartolomeu Dias de Novais (pronounced [baɾtuluˈmeu ˈdiɐʃ]; Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz) (c. 1450 – May 29, 1500), a Nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the western tip of...

Creative printmaker and teacher at the Slade School of Fine Art Bartolomeu dos Santos was always proudly Portuguese, and he came to be proudly Anglophile too; he made his career in England without losing any of his Portuguese roots. He became a well-known...

Michigan Chronicle 07-15-1997 Borders partners with the DIA By Patrick Keating CHRONICLE STAFF Borders Books and the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) have entered into a partnership to high-light the DIA's Splendors of Ancient Egypt exhibit, which runs July 16...

Provides biographical detail on the life of Bartholomeu Dias, a courageous 15th century Portuguese sea captain and explorer. Describes his contributions to the European Age of Exploration.