L'Anse aux Meadows is the first and only known site established by Vikings in North America. It is now home to a recreation of a Viking timber-and-sod-longhouse. Archaeological evidence found in the ...

It’s now confirmed that Norse Vikings, known for their seafaring prowess, reached North America a millennium ago, establishing the first known European settlement at Anse aux Meadows. This revelation, ...

Microscope image of a wood fragment from the Norse layers at L’Anse aux Meadows. (Photo by Petra Doeve) (CN) — Modern understanding of ancient solar storms has allowed scientists to pinpoint exactly ...

Replicas of Norse houses from 1,000 years ago inL'anse Aux Meadow, Newfoundland. From the 9th to 11th centuries A.D., Viking explorers ventured out into the northern Atlantic Ocean. Long lasting ...

NEWFOUNDLAND, Canada - Scientists have known for many years that Vikings — the first Europeans to arrive in North America — settled on Canada’s northern tip of Newfoundland. However, it has thus far ...

We now know when the Vikings came to America. Although we knew that Vikings made their way across the Atlantic hundreds of years before Columbus arrived, we weren't sure precisely when that was – ...

The location of Thorfinn’s family estate in Iceland has surprisingly broad implications. For one thing, it could shed new light on the early Norse experience in North America, first substantiated by ...

A new study has found that Vikings lived on North American soil exactly 1,000 years ago in the year 1,021 AD, meaning that seafaring Scandinavians accomplished the first known crossing of the Atlantic ...

Centuries before Christopher Columbus stumbled across the Bahamas, the Vikings established a beachhead at L’Anse Aux Meadows, a site on the northern peninsula of what is now Newfoundland, Canada. A ...

In 1874, Rasmus B. Anderson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, published a book with an exceedingly blunt title: “America Not Discovered by Columbus.” In 2021, that thesis was bolstered with ...

Researchers have discovered traces of cannabis at the only known Viking settlement on the North America mainland, raising the possibility that Norsemen were using the plant for medicinal or ...