Forget the Bering Strait, the first humans in North America may have come from Europe, not Asia ( Read more... )

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

Oh for Chriisake !!!!  For some reason, nothing's working right when I tried to post a picture today...

I'll try this, then:  Here's a link where you can see Carthage (since I had posted about the Carthaginians sailing to America in something hundred B.C.

This had better work or I'm going to jump into the Clyde and drown myself.

Add the Carthaginians to the list of people who may have "discovered" America.  From a web source:

The Syracusan (Greek 100bc) historian Diodorus said the Carthaginians had a "large island" which was located "far out in the Atlantic ocean" - on which there were "many mountains" and "large navigable rivers".  The land was rich in gold, gems, spices ( Read 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... )

Now it turns out the Welsh were the first Europeans in America.... not the Vikings or the Spanish...  The WELSH (!!!)  
Some of the following info is excerpted from the Wikipedia entry on Madoc:
Prince Madoc from Wales, according to legend, set out in 1170 to explore the western ocean with a small fleet of boats. They discovered a distant and ( Read more... )

This is reposted from a previous entry on my old blog... Sorry if the formatting is screwed up ( Read more... )

Those pesky Vikings get EVERYWHERE. There's even speculation that they reached Mexico. It's on teh INTERNET, so it MUST BE TRUE ( Read more... )