The “forgotten history” of the Vikings who arrived in America 500 years before Columbus

Norse explorers arrived in Canada approximately around the year 1,000, using the region as a base for further explorations and becoming the first Europeans to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

This historical event occurred roughly 500 years prior to Christopher Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic in 1492, which initially reached the Bahamas. The overlooked history of these early Scandinavian expeditions has been the subject of recent inquiry by the BBC.

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