Did Ancient Greeks Sail to Canada?

Hakai Magazine ^ | 01 Feb 2018 | Rebecca Boyle

[Theoria]

its all greek to me ping..

[Leep]

Canada is paying for this,right?

[Mount Athos]

I think it’s entirely possible that ancient long ocean migrations took place one way, with prevailing winds and currents.
They just couldn’t go back home.

I wouldn’t be shocked to find some greeks made it to newfoundland, had a colony for 3 years and died out

[Darteaus94025]

Right up there with the Polish space program.

[Theoria]

Michigan.

[yarddog]

I think ancient people visited many places on earth. Probably did not make a round trip tho.

Sometimes wonder if they mixed with locals tho.

[Leep]

Isn’t that in Canada?

[butlerweave]

I think I saw that movie

[Leep]

Who were the locals..Asians?

[Conan the Librarian]

The Portuguese and Basques regularly chased Cod to Newfoundland. Fisher folk would go where the fish were. They just didn’t tell anyone else about it, so, that they could control the market.

[Theoria]

Always fascinating.

Borne on a Black Current- For thousands of years, the Pacific Ocean’s strong currents have swept shipwrecked Japanese sailors onto American shores

[Theoria]

Otokichi

[yarddog]

I just finished a book on Japanese History.

It is accepted that the first Japanese settled in Kyushu. They eventually displaced the Ainu, mostly by murdering them, until the only remaining were in Hokkaido. Something the Japanese are reluctant to admit even today.

[Rummyfan]

If the Tahitians could make it to Hawaii, and the Vikings to North America, why not the Greeks? I’ll wait for the Greek Thor Heyerdahl to prove it though.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Anyone remember an old book THEY ALL DISCOVERED AMERICA published back in the 1960s?

Many Americans of the early 1800s were firm believers the Mandan Indians were really Kelts or Welsh from England.

[Mr. K]

those distances look very far apart but if you look on a globe they are actually much closer together. And Iceland looks much much smaller.

They just hugged the shorelines and kept finding more and more. I would guess they went much further south than Canada too, to find warmer weather and food.

[Mr. K]

You mean the one that planned to be the first to go to the Sun by flying there at night?

[EC Washington]

Did they find the ruins of an Ancient Dinner or coffee shop?

[dainbramaged]

Did they dig the money pit on Oak Island?