Which are the most mysterious artifacts ever discovered in America, and what can we learn about history and culture of the past from them? There's no shortage of things the Vikings did that ...

(A history of Iceland written around 1120 ... but the only unambiguous Norse settlement in North America remains L’Anse aux Meadows. Icelanders, for their part, need no persuading of the ...

Vikings were trading with Eskimos hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus "discovered" North America, suggests a new study. Analysis of ancient walrus DNA has helped to retrace the medieval ...

yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the ...

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For those letters were the last anyone ever heard from the Norse Greenlanders. They vanished from history ... question of the Europeans who came to America becoming nomadic and living off ...

He finds evidence of an ancient settlement in Iceland from where Viking explorers embarked on journeys even further West, to become the first Europeans to discover North America. This is from the ...