The Irish

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Since the discovery of the New World, various authors have tried to link the Brendan myth with an early discovery of America.

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Another group may have been the first Europeans to arrive in the New World: the Irish.

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A popular legend suggests an additional event: According to an ancient manuscript, a band of Irish monks led by Saint Brendan sailed an ox-hide boat westward in the sixth century in search of new lands.

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Leprechauns speak out!: Did the Irish discover America?

That’s right, Saint Brendan may have been the one to discover America—way before Leif Ericsson explored the North Atlantic or Christopher Columbus set sail for the Orient.

Leprechauns speak out!: Did the Irish discover America?

And, oh, yes, it’s a good possibility that dear old Saint Brendan was the European who discovered America.

Leprechauns speak out!: Did the Irish discover America?

When a large seaside rock with inscriptions on it resembling Irish letters was discovered in Newfoundland a few years ago, it led Canada’s national archivist to declare, “There is no doubt that Irish monks reached our shores before the Vikings.”

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Israelites in America

It has been rightly said that when the Norsemen/Scandinavians arrived in North America in the Tenth Century, they found that the Irish had got there before them.

The Chinese

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Some researchers have argued that the Olmec civilization came into existence with the help of Chinese refugees, particularly at the end of the Shang dynasty.[53]

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Besides, some believe the Chinese beat Columbus by 80 years.

The Vikings

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Although among non-Native Americans Christopher Columbus is traditionally considered the discoverer of America, Columbus was preceded by the various cultures and civilizations of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, as well as the Western world's Vikings at L'Anse aux Meadows.

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L'Anse aux Meadows is the only known Norse site in North America outside of Greenland, and represents the farthest known extent of European exploration and settlement of the New World before the voyages of Christopher Columbus almost 500 years later.

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Norse, or Viking journeys to North America are supported by both historical and archaeological evidence.

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Who Really Discovered America, Eh?

I am prepared to and do at this time emphatically declare that Columbus did not discover America and that a Norwegian Viking by the name of Leif Erickson did and did so in the late tenth century.

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Who Discovered America

Norse expeditions to America had started much before 1492 AD i.e. in 986 AD.

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Who Really Discovered North America First?

Of course, evidence exists that Vikings first reached the new world.

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Who really discovered America?

Also Norse expeditions to North America, starting with Bjarni Herjolfsson in 986, are well established historically.

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The first European to venture to North America was most likely Icelandic explorer Leif Ericsson.

The Jews

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The dubious Bat Creek inscription and Los Lunas Decalogue Stone have led some to suggest the possibility that Jewish seafarers may have come to America after fleeing the Roman Empire at the time of the Jewish Revolt.[48]

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Evidence Shows Jews Discovered America.

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Today, Father Miguel S.M. Puerta, a Colombian scholar, continues to claim that Jews discovered America.

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Father Puerta believes Jews sailed to America thousands of years ago, most likely under Solomon.

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Who really discovered America? (Evidence that the Jews did!)

Ancient Semites -- early Hebrews -- sailed to the Western Hemisphere 2, 500 years before Columbus.

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Israelites in America

ISRAELITES WERE IN AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS!

Israelites in America

They had in fact discovered, traded with, and even for a time made settlements in North America, long before Columbus reached the West Indies in 1492.

Israelites in America

claimed that the American continent was discovered and settled by Phoenicians and Hebrews who kept in contact with the Middle East for some three hundred years.

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Spanish Propaganda

However it is becoming an increasingly well-known and documented FACT, that not only were there Northern Europeans (Vikings like Bjarni Herjulfon, Eric the Red and his son Leif Ericsson) on the American continent long before the voyage of Columbus, but also, that Phoenicians/Israelites (but not Jews) sailed from the Middle-East along the Mediterranean to Gibraltar which was inhabited by Phoenician/Israelites from the "lost" tribe of GAD (please study my "Gibraltar - British or Spanish?" Booklet for details), then through the Straits and across the Atlantic AT LEAST SIX CENTURIES before the "Virgin" birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.

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The Saga of Ancient Hebrew Explorers -- Who Really Discovered America?

Ancient Semites -- early Hebrews -- sailed to the Western Hemisphere 2, 500 years before Columbus.

The Egyptians

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Some have advocated that Ancient Egyptians may have traveled to the New World.

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We also have stories that there was trade routes between South America and Egypt for example.

The Japanese

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Davis speculates that Buddhist priests or restless peasants from Japan may have crossed the Pacific in the 13th century, traveled to the American Southwest, and influenced Zuni society.[68]

The Polynesians

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Between 300 and 1200 CE, Polynesians in canoes spread throughout the Polynesian Triangle going as far as Easter Island, New Zealand and Hawaii, and perhaps on to the Americas.

None. You can't discover what's already been found.

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Before European explorers arrived, the Americas were home to tens of millions of native peoples.

Coming to America: Who Was First?

Before European explorers arrived, the Americas were home to tens of millions of native peoples.

The Romans

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Evidence of contacts with the civilizations of Classical Antiquity - chiefly the Roman Empire, but sometimes also with Greece, Carthage, and other Phoenician cities, and other cultures of the age - have been based on isolated alleged archaeological finds in American sites that originated in the Old World.

Africans

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Arabic sources describe what some consider to be visits to the New World by a Mali fleet in 1311.[51]

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In his book They Came Before Columbus African Studies professor Ivan van Sertima of Rutgers University assembled what he viewed as evidence in support of a pre-Columbian African presence in the Americas.

The Moors of Spain

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Several medieval Arabic sources can be taken to suggest that explorers from the Al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia, comprising modern Spain and Portugal) may have travelled on expeditions across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas between the 9th and 14th centuries.

Christopher Columbus

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