Finding Vinland, the Vikings who beat Columbus to America
Once presumed to be a mythical land, archaeologists are now hunting for the truth about Vinland, the settlement built by Viking explorers in North America
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Once presumed to be a mythical land, archaeologists are now hunting for the truth about Vinland, the settlement built by Viking explorers in North America
Long before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of the Canadian island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first. However, when precisely did the Vikings journeyed to establish the L’Anse aux Meadows settlement had remained unclear — until now. Scientists on Wednesday said a new type of dating technique using a long-ago solar storm as a reference point revealed that the settlement was occupied in 1021, exactly one millennium ago and 471 yea...
Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a ...
Examining tree rings and matching them to solar storms, scientists show Vikings visted Canada in 1021 AD