I'm given to understand that in 1000 A.D. Vikings lead by Eric the Red traveled from Iceland to Greenland. Later Leif Ericson, (Eric's son) lead a group into Canada. Unfortunately no maps were made of these travels. In 1965 a Viking map dated 1440 purportedly was found showing parts of northeastern Canada.
Some say a Dr. J. Huston McCulloch made analyses of Hebrew writing on a tablet found apparently in Bat Creek, Tennessee. As I understand it the site was excavated years ago by Smithsonian archaeologists. They are said to have published an illustration upside-down, that when inverted show words in a type of Hebrew lettering used about 1800 years ago. The tablet's date supposedly has been confirmed via carbon-14 dating of "wooden ear spools" that I presume are affixed to the tablet, and by analysis of brass bracelets found with a skeleton at the location.
A Dr. H. Mike Xu, of the Central Oklahoma University has supposedly been able to read Chinese words on artifacts located in the National Museum of Mexico. They are said to mention people and events related to the Shang dynasty, which ended circa 1,200 B.C.. Apparently he believes refugees fled to what is now Central America. Dr. Xu is of the opinion that these people founded the Olmec civilization.
According to data in Michael Cremo's book, "Forbidden Archeology" machine tooled artifacts have been found embedded within coal on various occasions in north America over the last couple hundred years.
So who discovered America? I don't know, but personally, I doubt that it was Christopher Columbus.
