Reveals the intertwined lives of Columbus and Cabot, and how their race to riches threatened Europe's balance of power and ended in a way that no one had predicted.
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The final decade of the 15th century was a turning point in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward on the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, famously determined to discover for Spain a shorter and more direct route to the riches of the Indies. Meanwhile, a …
"In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained o…
How the sensational discovery of a Viking grave in northern Ontario became a major museum controversy when it was exposed as a hoax.