My nine-year-old son, Stephen, is taking a school course on the Vikings landing in Newfoundland, 1,000 years ago. He is very excited about this course and comes home every day with another new fact. I ...

We went because: To see the remains of the first Viking settlement in North America (A.D. 1000) located at the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula in Newfoundland. Don't miss: Docent tour, included ...

L'Anse aux Meadows is the first and only known site established by Vikings in North America. It is now home to a recreation of a Viking timber-and-sod-longhouse. Archaeological evidence found in the ...

Beneath these mysterious mounds on the northern tip of Newfoundland lay evidence of a significant moment in human exploration. While driving north along the TransCanada Highway, I was stopped by a ...

L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is famed for being a site where Norse travelers set up a colony hundreds of years before Europe at large became aware of North America’s existence. The colony was ...

The possible discovery of a 1,000-year-old Viking site on a Canadian island could rewrite the story of the exploration of North America by Europeans before Christopher Columbus. The unearthing of a ...

New techniques for tree-ring analysis solidify the dates of North America's earliest known European settlers. Exactly 1,000 years ago, some of the first known European visitors were living, eating and ...

Centuries before Christopher Columbus stumbled across the Bahamas, the Vikings established a beachhead at L’Anse Aux Meadows, a site on the northern peninsula of what is now Newfoundland, Canada. A ...

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