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Scientists Just Put a Date on the Vikings’ Arrival in America, And It’s Centuries Earlier Than Columbus
For decades, archaeologists knew that Vikings had reached North America long before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, but they could not put a precise year on the event. That changed when researchers returned to four unimpressive pieces of wood recovered from L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. The scraps had been sitting in storage for years,…
Scientists Verify Viking Arrival in North America 500 Years Ahead of Columbus
A handful of Canadian hemlock splinters, unearthed in Viking farmsteads on Greenland, has quietly rewritten the story of who first bridged the Atlantic. The new timber analysis shows that Norse crews sailed west for generations—hauling prized lumber home as early as the 11th century and still trading in North American planks 300 years later—long before…