The Vikings Beat Christopher Columbus to Reaching America by 500 Years

Photo caption: L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Photo credit: D. Gordon E. Robertson on Wikimedia Commons. Article by Marcia Wendorf. Interesting Engineering – October 22, 2021.

In 1960, the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and his archaeologist wife Anne Stine Ingstad began excavating at a site called L’Anse aux Meadows on the north most point of Newfoundland, Canada. The Ingstads thought it could be “Vinland”, a site described in the […]

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