New evidence of the arrival of others to America more than 500 years before Columbus
Perhaps it was the act of the Vikings, and the fame of Columbus
When Christopher Columbus arrived in America in 1492, he thought he had found the way to what he was seeking, known at the time as the West Indies. As for the Spaniards who financed his journey, they knew after him that what he found was a continent, no one outside of it had ever set foot on its land before him. However, new compelling evidence began to emerge and reinforce the old ones, proving that the Scandinavian Vikings preceded them to America by more than 5 centuries.
The Vikings, skilled in shipbuilding and sailing, established, starting in 985 AD, colonies that lasted hundreds of years in Greenland, the largest island in the world, and then left it with time, leaving ruins in it, some of which were made of wood. Wood was not only imported from northern Europe, but also from America, whose coasts in Canada were reached by the Vikings in 1021, as scientists now believe.
A number of them had analyzed two years ago the woods of a site called L'Anse aux Meadows, shown in a video about it above, and described since its discovery in 1960 in northern Newfoundland Island near the eastern coast of Canada, as the most famous Viking settlement in America ever, because of the evidence of a European presence on the continent. before Columbus.
The same thing, but with more compelling evidence, became clear again from a microscopic analysis of what was in the Greenland settlements of wood, which was touched upon by a research read by "Al Arabiya.net" in the current issue of the British magazine Antiquity, in which the trips were taking place to North America during the Scandinavian settlement, To obtain resources from him, over a much longer period of time than previously thought.
Jack Pine pine
That wood dates back to a time when most Europeans were wondering if crossing the Atlantic was possible, and whether China or India was located on the other side in the far west of the Earth, at a time when the Vikings were already circling the ocean through the import and export networks they developed to and from the New World, This is confirmed by the new microscopic analysis of the cellular structure of the wood now left in the remains of the ancient Scandinavian colonies.
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