New evidence of the arrival of others to America more than 500 years before 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 from outside 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 the year 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 the Vikings arrived 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.
The most important thing that the analysis discovered are the types and species of wood, including Hemlock, known in Arabic as “hemlock” wood, which is available in several regions of the world. Then he confirmed the most important analysis, which is the existence of a species that can only come from the north of the American continent, where Canada and some of the United States are, because its tree does not grow except with soils and climates that are only available in it, which is the coniferous Jack Pine, so as soon as the research reader finishes familiarity with what In it, however, he raises a crucial question: Where did that wood come from in Greenland 500 years before Columbus, if not from America?
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