Was Christopher Columbus really lost when he made his famed voyage to the New World in 1492? New analysis of a document from northern Italy, written in 1345, suggests Italian sailors were already aware of North America, as a land dubbed “Markland” by Leif Eriksson, according to Icelandic sources.
The post North America Was Known to Italians Long Before Columbus, Study Suggests appeared first on The Washington Informer.
