February
02
/ 2024
About 5,000 years ago, when the Phoenicians dominated the Mediterranean trade routes and were, perhaps, beginning to venture out into the Atlantic as far west as North America, and when a mysterious civilization was building house foundations in the Canadian Arctic and another was constructing shell circles along the coastline of South Carolina and Florida, another mysterious sea-faring people were thriving up north in Maine and Canada. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"115534","attributes":{"alt":"Part of Abraham Ortelius' atlas from 1570, showing \"Norvmbega\" among other somewhat mythical names for various areas as well as several phantom islands. (Public Domain)","class":"media-image","height":"410","style":"width: 610px; height: 410px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Part of Abraham Ortelius' atlas from 1570, showing "Norvmbega" among other somewhat mythical names for various areas as well as several phantom islands. ( Public
