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This Milanese Friar Wrote About North America 150 Years Before Columbus, and Columbus May Have Known

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. But we’ve known for a long time that Columbus wasn’t the first European to set foot on North American shores. The Sagas of Icelanders, backed by hard ...
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The Ancient Greek Philosophers That Knew About America

Ancient Greek philosophers envisioned a fourth continent across the Atlantic, anticipating America centuries before Columbus.
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Across before Columbus? : evidence for transoceanic contact with the Americas prior to 1492 / edited by Donald Y. Gilmore, Linda S. McElroy

Papers originally presented at the America Before Columbus (ABC) Conference which was sponsored by NEARA and held in Providence, R.I. in June 1992. ANTH copy 39088017237454 gift from the library of ...
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Explorations in America before Columbus

The dawn of seafaring discovery -- The first pathfinder to the new world -- the discovery of America's mainland -- Leif Erikson discovers America -- Where was Leif Erikson's Vinland? -- America's ...