The Vikings Beat Christopher Columbus to Reaching America by 500 Years
A new study that uses tree rings and astrophysics confirms that the Vikings have arrived in North America 500 Years earlier than Christopher Columbus.
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A new study that uses tree rings and astrophysics confirms that the Vikings have arrived in North America 500 Years earlier than Christopher Columbus.
Six decades ago, a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists discovered the remains of a settlement on the windswept northern tip of Newfoundland. The s
Thanks to tree-ring dating and astrophysics, scientists have pinpointed the precise year the Vikings inhabited Newfoundland.
Long before 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 Canada's island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first.
SCIENCE-VIKINGS/ (PIX):Goodbye, Columbus: Vikings crossed the Atlantic 1,000 years ago