Here’s the 523-year-old letter Christopher Columbus wrote after discovering the Americas

  A stolen copy of a rare 15th-century letter written by Christopher Columbus was repatriated to Italy this week and unveiled in a ceremony in Rome that was attended by U.S Ambassador John Phillips and Italian Culture Minister Enrico Franceschini. On his return voyage from the Caribbean in 1493, the Genoese explorer penned a letter to his […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/05/18/heres-the-523-year-old-letter-christopher-columbus-wrote-after-discovering-the-americas/