Arkeonews
May 22, 2023
Although the discovery of North America is synonymous with Christopher Columbus, new research reveals that Viking sailors landed on the shores of North America about 700 years before Columbus.
Archaeologists from the University of Iceland came to this conclusion after analyzing wood recovered from five Norse farmsteads in Greenland, according to a study recently published in the journal Antiquity.
Microscopic analysis of wood suggests that Norse people in Greenland were using timber that came from North America over 700 years ago.