To say that Christopher Columbus was a latecomer to the Western Hemisphere would be an understatement. By the time he arrived in 1492, the Native Americans had been there for tens of thousands of ...

Timeline of world civilizations -- Across oceans before Columbus. Prologue: Life at sea ; A land bridge too far ; Along the Silk Road ; Plants between continents ; European seafaring, 100,000 B.C. ; ...

Many have claimed to have "discovered" the America's first. From Christopher Columbus, to Leif Erikson, all the way to the first paleoindians who set foot on the continent during the last ice age. But ...