Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas in 1492 is often presented as a major discovery, but this view obscures a much ...

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 ...

Explore Leif Erikson Day, honoring the Norse explorer who reached North America before Columbus, and its cultural ...

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The first people to arrive in the Western Hemisphere were Indigenous Americans, who were descended from an ancestral group of Ancient North Siberians and East Asians. They likely traveled along the ...