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• Vikings reached North America 500 years before Columbus, and left a campsite to prove it

  In 1960, Norwegian explorers Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad found the remains of a Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland, complete with turf-wall…

  — Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad, The Norse Discovery of America

• Archaeologists found proof Vikings reached North America 500 years before Columbus

  In the 1960s, Norwegian explorers Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad excavated the remains of a Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, carbon-dated to around 1000 AD. It…

  — Helge Ingstad, Anne Stine Ingstad, L'Anse aux Meadows

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