Explore the remarkable Viking voyages that led Norse explorers to North America around 1000 AD centuries before Columbus set sail. Uncover how Leif Erikson and his crew used advanced seafaring skills ...

So first, Columbus did not ever land in North America. Second, Columbus was not sailing across the Atlantic to prove that the world was round - all the educated people knew that it was round.

New analysis of ancient writings suggests that sailors from the Italian hometown of Christopher Columbus knew of America 150 years before its renowned ‘discovery’. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) ...

Christopher Columbus may have been the first European to land on Puerto Rico's shores, but touring San Juan will tell you there's a lot more to the story.

Did St. Brendan arrive in America before Christopher Columbus? Did Irish monk St. Brendan set foot on American soil 900 years before Christopher Columbus set sail? Seán Carberry ...

The legend of Saint Brendan’s voyage was said to have provided extra fuel for Columbus’ dreams. It is certainly not impossible that Guillermo could have reached America before 1492 as Leif ...

During the decade before 1492, as Columbus nursed a growing urge to sail west to the Indies—as the lands of China, Japan and India were then known in Europe—he was studying the old writers to ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about North America more than a century before his 1492 voyage. The ...