Found this on a website, and wanted to put some interesting bits in here:

"Historical evidence suggests that there were Muslims within the original, native, Ameri-Indian community and that the first group of immigrant Muslims reached the Americas in 1312 (180 years before Columbus). From Mali and other parts of West Africa, Muslim explorers arrived ( Read more... )

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From the Newport Daily News:

NEWPORT - D'Elayne Coleman came from Guisborough, Nova Scotia, to Newport on Monday to witness the beginning of excavation work around the Old Stone Mill, the first archaeological dig allowed at the site by the Newport City Council in almost 60 years.

Coleman, as president of the Prince Henry Sinclair Society of North ( Read more... )

Some interesting stuff I read on Wikipedia during my lunch break today...

Some have speculated that surviving members of the Knights Templar escaped the purge of their order by French King Philip the Fair in the early 1300's and travelled to Scotland.  Years later, led by the Scottish noble Henry I Sinclair (Earl of Orkney, Baron of Roslin, and ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4609074.stmRead more... )

Forget Columbus or the Spanish or the Vikings or the Chinese or even the Welsh.  It was the Irish who "discovered" America !

Excerpts follow from  http://farshores.org/a03giine.htm.   Sorry about the length but I don't like to hide posts under a cut.  These are just the real interesting bits:

In the year 795 A. D. fierce sea-rovers of Danish ( Read more... )