Goodbye Columbus? The Pseudohistory of Who Discovered America
Egyptians, Phoenicians, Africans, Trojans, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Irish, Welsh, Germans, Poles, and various groups of Jews such as the wandering Hebrews, one or more of the Ten Lost Tribes, and refugees from the Bar Kokhba revolt have all been proposed as having crossed the Atlantic before 1492.