An exhaustive analysis of the controversial Vinland Map has shown it to be a 20th-century forgery. “The Vinland Map is a fake,” Raymond Clemens, curator at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library ...
As far as European history in North America goes, most people associate the earliest settlers with Christopher Columbus in the 15th century, or maybe the pilgrims coming to New England in the 1600s.
Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the oldest Viking settlement in Iceland. The ancient longhouse is thought to be a summer settlement built in the 800s, decades before seafaring refugees are ...