# The Vikings Beat Christopher Columbus to Reaching America by 500 Years

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/the-vikings-beat-christopher-columbus-to-reaching-america-by-500-years/
- Published: 2021-10-24T09:45:27-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

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 […] Click here to view original web page at interestingengineering.com