MAP82: Viking Warriors and Explorers
Listen Now! The Viking Age VIKINGS! The scourge of the early middle ages. Vikings raided England, Ireland and Europe with a ferocity never seen before.
1 September 2020
Wreckage of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria Found off Haitian Coast (Maybe)
On Christmas Day of 1492 Christopher Columbus’ flagship, the Santa Maria, ran aground off the northern coast of Haiti. In his journal Columbus recorded the
16 May 2014
Author Richard White: Medieval explorers may have visited New England
The evidence is fading from years of the elements pounding upon it, but even stone can’t hold the image of a medieval knight forever —
12 January 2011
Icelandic DNA study Shows Evidence of First Americans in Europe in 1000
When Christopher Columbus returned from his first voyage to the Americas, he shanghaied ten to twenty-five of the native peoples he encountered on the Caribbean
23 November 2010
Columbus Didn’t Sail Syphilis Back to Europe
Dozens of skeletons unearthed in London may provide the first solid evidence that syphilis did not sail into Europe with Christopher Columbus and his crew,
27 October 2010
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