A Milanese friar mentions North America in 1345 text, 150 years before Columbus
It's the first written evidence that proves someone outside northern Europe had heard of America before Columbus's 1492 voyage.
Tag: Vikings
Remains found in 1,000-year-old lavish burial in Finland may belong to nonbinary warrior
The macho Viking myth is being challenged by a Medieval warrior with XXY chromosomes.
The Vikings (and their mice) were the first to reach these idyllic Portuguese islands
Evidence shows Norse seafarers settled the Azores centuries before Portuguese explorers.
Off-cuts of wood show Vikings were settled in America one thousand years ago
Merry millenniversary!
Scientists use DNA to expose the origins of Vikings
Vikings weren’t a group of barrel-chested, blond-haired, bearded men. Instead, they comprised many ethnicities and groups of people with different ...
Climate change in the Arctic is destroying Viking artifacts
Ancient Arctic artifacts are disappearing as warming unfurls.
The greatest Viking invasion of Britain never left — it got buried there, new research finds
The site was first found in the 70's, but couldn't be accurately dated until now.
Who really discovered America? (Spoiler: it’s not Columbus)
There are claims from all over the world.
Vikings might have actually used sunstones to navigate
The legends might have been true after all.
Whole 2000 year-old army of skeletons uncovered in Denmark. They tell of a macabre end
The first skull excavated from the site, with a mortal wound caused by a spear or ...
Sunstone viking “magical compass” proved by science
[caption id="attachment_9751" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A Viking sunstone compass from a calcite crystal, used in the experimental setup by Rennes researchers. ...