Explore the remarkable Viking voyages that led Norse explorers to North America around 1000 AD centuries before Columbus set sail. Uncover how Leif Erikson and his crew used advanced seafaring skills ...

Also, he didn’t prove the Earth is round; Greek mathematician Eratosthenes calculated the Earth’s circumference and axial ...

October 9 is Leif Erikson Day, but don't go grabbing that horned hat to wear just yet. The day celebrates the 11th-century Norse explorer who is credited with sailing to Newfoundland and settling ...

More than a millennium ago, legendary Norse Viking Leif Erikson forever changed the course of history when he fearlessly embarked on a daring expedition into the unknown, becoming the first European ...

Leif Erikson, was the first European known to have sighted America in the year 1000, almost five centuries before the famous voyages of Christopher Columbus. Erickson's sightings resulted in several ...

SIOUX CITY - Around the year1002 A.D. Leif Erikson, a Norse explorer, landed on the east cost of North America. He discovered this continent before Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes and Ponce de ...