America had visitors before Columbus

Nearly 500 years before Columbus, the Vikings had already set foot in America.

Around the year 1000, Leif Erikson crossed the North Atlantic and landed in what is now Newfoundland, in Canada. There, at L'Anse aux Meadows, you can still visit the ruins of his camp.

They did not stay. But the "discovery" of 1492 was arriving half a millennium late.