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5 days ago · Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and feudal baron of Roslin (c. 1345 – c. 1400), was a Scottish nobleman who is best known today from a modern legend which claims that he took part in explorations of Greenland and North America almost 100 years before Christopher Columbus's voyages to the Americas.
2 days ago · Human historyHuman Era. In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus 's voyage of 1492. Usually, the era covers the history of Indigenous cultures until significant influence by Europeans.
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4 days ago · Recent discoveries are reshaping our understanding of ancient civilizations. A 5,000-year-old Egyptian map has emerged, depicting America with surprising accuracy. This challenges the notion that Christopher Columbus was the first non-native to set foot on American soil. Alongside this map, another remarkable find has stirred debate: the Nubia egg.
1 day ago · While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus, estimates range from 3.8 million, as mentioned above, to 7 million people to a high of 18 million. Scholars vary on the estimated size of the Indigenous population in what is now Canada prior to colonization and on the effects of European contact ...
1 day ago · In Who Discovered America? he combines meticulous research and an adventurer’s spirit to reveal astounding new evidence of an ancient Asian seagoing tradition—most notably the Chinese—that dates as far back as 130,000 years ago.Menzies offers a revolutionary new alternative to the “Beringia” theory of how humans crossed a land bridge ...
5 days ago · Nearly 500 years before the birth of Christopher Columbus, Leif Eriksson and a band of European sailors left their homeland behind in search of a new world. Did the Vikings find America before Columbus? Yes, archaeological discoveries have proven that the Vikings explored and settled in America about 500 years before Columbus’s arrival.
