500 years before Christopher Columbus, the Vikings inhabited the Americas
The new "New World Order" was upset by the findings.
Christopher Columbus was not the first European to set foot in the New World, hence he also did not "discover" America.
Viking adventurers reportedly arrived in the Americas 500 years before the legendary Italian explorer and navigator set foot here in 1492, according to a recent study.
A recent study found that the famed Italian explorer and navigator arrived in the Americas around 1492, 500 years after the arrival of Viking explorers, according to the journal "Antiquity."
According to the University of Iceland archaeologists who conducted the groundbreaking study, "Journeys were being made from Greenland to North America throughout the entirety of the period of Norse settlement in Greenland," the Times Of London stated.
According to the Daily Mail, researchers reached this shocking conclusion after analysing wood samples from five northern sites in western Greenland that were inhabited between the years 1000 and 1400.
Some of the wood samples analyzed by archaeologists.
After looking at historical documents that revealed the Vikings who occupied Greenland between 985 and 1450 relied on timber and other resources imported from Europe and the Americas, they set out to discover the origin of the lumber.
The string found attached to the beads may have ben produced during the 14th or 15th centuries, according to radiocarbon dating.
Along with driftwood, it was utilized by Scandinavian mariners to build artifacts, boats, and other things for which the local lumber was suitable.
Scientists examined the wood's cellular structure to calculate the percentage of foreign wood and identified some of the trees as hemlock and pine.
Since these plants were not cultivated in Europe throughout the second millennium, specialists believe they were brought over by ship from the New World.
The results supported historical Viking sagas that claimed Nordic explorers like Leif Erickson, who is thought to have been the first European to visit the Americas, brought wood back from Vnland, the Norse designation for the area of North American coastline near the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Vintage illustration of Christopher Columbus on the deck of the Santa Maria in 1492.
Larger-scale implications of the most recent finding included the fact that "resources were being acquired by the Norse from North America for far longer than previously thought."
A 2021 study discovered that wood-cutting samples from Viking lumberjack sites at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, date back to 1021 AD.
The findings also supported the theory that various trade routes were created by the Vikings across the Northwest Atlantic possibly 500 years before Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World.
These sky-blue beads may pre-date Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the New World.
These transatlantic journeys may have been made up to just before the start of Europe's formal Age Of Exploration in 1400.
According to the study, "These results highlight the fact that Norse Greenlanders had the ability, knowledge, and suitable vessels to cross the Davis Strait to the east coast of North America, at least up to the 14th century."
Allegory showing Christopher Columbus and his men landing in the West Indies with the discovery of the New World.
According to the study's findings, by "demonstrating the range of timber sources used by the Greenland Norse," researchers were able to show the degree of "connectivity across the medieval North Atlantic world."
It is still unclear how the Greenland civilization vanished. However, a wide range of factors, including the plague and pirate invasions, resource mismanagement, dropping temperatures, and more, have been linked by scholars.