Did Ancient Greeks Sail to Canada?

Researchers guarantee the civilisation made a trip to Newfoundland and set up provinces to mine gold in the first Century about a thousand years previously the Vikings This is as per a questionable report that cases Greek Greeks had such definite learning of space science that they could pinpoint Atlantic streams that would impel them west. This thought depends on an investigation of the content 'De Facie' by Greek biographer and writer Plutarch, who lived in the vicinity of 46 and 119 Promotion. A character in the texts recounts meeting a Greek stranger who had recently returned from a 'great continent' - and scientists say this may have been Canada.



Powered by sails and oars, they may have regularly visited Newfoundland, mined gold and set up colonies that thrived for centuries, the study claims.



However, there is no concrete evidence of these trips and many historians and maritime archaeologists have dismissed the work as 'unfounded'.
Our intention is to prove, with modern science, that it was possible for this trip to be made,' Ioannis Liritzis, an archaeologist from the University of the Aegean told Hakai Magazine as part of an in-depth feature on his research.



These early settlers may have travelled for the sake of finding new lands or riches, researchers say.



They believe some travellers would return home after a brief stay but for others the trip was one way.