Who discovered America first?

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Every American school child is taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America in October of 1492. However, there is evidence that the Vikings discovered the new world some 500 years earlier.

The great Norse seafarer, Leif Eriksson, was thought to have found North America around 1000 AD. He was one of a large group of explorers from Scandinavia that set out in search of a mysterious island known to them as “Greenland”.

However, what he found was the northern parts of Canada. Archaeological digs have found that these people not only found this area, but lived there for quite some time, as they have found a Viking long house, as well as several bits of pottery of Norse design. They have also found cloak pins and even an oven for the creation of iron objects.