From Caesar to Napoleon, the Pyramids to the Parthenon, the Trojan War to the Civil War—National Geographic History draws readers in with more than 5,000 years of people, places, and things to ...
5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...