[rmlew]

It isn't about press. Teh Vikings were there 400 years earlier. They left a small settlement, which dissapeared in a generation.
Chinese, Africans, Egyptian, Irish and Carthaginian exploreres may also have "found" North and/or South America. But they failed to do anyhting with the discovery.
In the long run only 3 groups made a difference: the Eskimos, the nomadic precursors of Indians, and the Spanish. Each of these groups settled/conquered the land in large numbers.

[Savage Beast]

Don't some people think the Hopis are really Lybians that got lost during the time of the Pharoahs?