Scientists used several different methods to prove that Vikings arrived in the Americas nearly 500 years before Columbus stumbled into the Caribbean … errr … "discovered the Americas"
Can we finally stop celebrating Columbus as some kind of hero and acknowledge how history actually happened?
The Vikings had small boats and even more rudimentary methods of navigation. And sailed from further than Spain.
And that scientists can use rigor to determine when they arrived based on technology, rather than conjecture or mythology, is indeed exciting.
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