About 1,000 years ago, Norse explorer Leif Ericson bumped into the New World at Newfoundland. The old world was filling up, with 300,000 people living in the Roman capital of Constantinople. At the ...

I first encountered the word “Thule” in college while pouring over beyond-old world maps in class. I thought nothing of it ...

For hundreds of years, the Dorset people, the last of the Paleo Eskimos, dominated eastern Canada and Greenland. Then, seven hundred years ago, they vanished. Archaeologists have searched in vain in ...

FAIRBANKS - About 1,000 years ago, Norse explorer Leif Ericson bumped into the New World at Newfoundland. The old world was filling up, with 300,000 people living in the Roman capital of ...