Saint Brendan : The Irish Monk Who Beat Columbus

[OnlyOneUweRosler]

Saint Brendan's claim to have visited America centuries before Columbus was once seen as legend, but modern science now thinks he did it. This short video explores more.

 

[mackenzie]

Love stuff like this! Thanks for posting. ;-)

 

[NeilYoungIsBack]

The Vikings reached North America hundreds of years before Columbus.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Touch of the Blarney me thinks.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Fascinating stuff and all done in coracle, a loaf of soda bread and a pair of flip flops with not a choir boy in sight.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

It’s hypothesised, because of European flint tool findings, that Europeans first went to the Americas, along the ice edge (that was much larger than now), ~20,000 years ago.

Europeans 20,000 years ago would still have had dark skin.

And they’ve found the skeletons of dark skinned humans in Chile that date to before Native Americans colonised the Americas (in one of the episodes on Dr Alice Roberts’ Incredible Human Journey). This could be either from the European dark skinned hypothesis, but more likely a South Asian one (maybe Melanesians)

 

[lefty goldblatt]

Did he have his teeth done, ditch his first wife and go to pieces at Crystal Palace?

 

[Deleted member 77198]

There is also a hypothesis that ancient Egypt traded with the Americas in the more modern era (last 3,000 years, compared to 15-20,000 years).

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It has long been said that Christopher Columbus was not the first foreigner to step foot in the Americas by the time he reached there in 1492.

www.ancient-origins.net

Cigs and sniff!

 

[remember arthur mann]

 

[OnlyOneUweRosler]

Did he have his teeth done, ditch his first wife and go to pieces at Crystal Palace?

He decided taking a rickety boat into the ocean was more fun that trying to persuade Suarez to stay.