{"id":86674,"date":"2026-02-07T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/?p=86674"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:45:05","slug":"the-explorer-on-this-nyassa-stamp-was-not-the-hero-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/the-explorer-on-this-nyassa-stamp-was-not-the-hero-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"The Explorer on This Nyassa Stamp\u2026 Was Not the Hero You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nyassa, the former Portuguese colony in southeast Africa, once issued a striking stamp honoring Vasco da Gama, the \u201cheroic explorer\u201d celebrated for opening the sea route to India. But behind the polished portrait is a history the stamp doesn\u2019t show. This video uncovers the dark side of da Gama: the brutal sieges, burned ships, tortured captains, and violent coercion he used to force trade dominance across the Indian Ocean. While Europe praised him as a maritime legend, the coastal communities he encountered remembered him for cruelty, intimidation, and destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Explorer on This Nyassa Stamp\u2026 Was Not the Hero You Think\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c8p6ptkXcSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyassa, the former Portuguese colony in southeast Africa, once issued a striking stamp honoring Vasco da Gama, the \u201cheroic explorer\u201d celebrated for opening the sea route to India. But behind the polished portrait is a history the stamp doesn\u2019t show. This video uncovers the dark side of da Gama: the brutal sieges, burned ships, tortured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youtube"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86677,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86674\/revisions\/86677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}