Christopher Columbus was Scottish

[Bryan]

...Portuguese Templar connections to the Sinclair Templars.

I was wondering how long this would go on until someone mentioned the
"T" word. lol

By the way, the Sinclair voyage has yet to be proven.

[Bigkahuna]

Mesoamericans also have carvings of feathered serpents (e.g. Quetzalcoatl), but that doesn't mean they exist. lol

They used to. Check out Archeopterex.

[Bigkahuna]

There are also clay figures of what look like dinosaurs. But that is a topic for "Fortean Times".

[thanmuwa]

Because there is NO archaeological evidence one must infer that the story is indeed legend

No, actually, I don't have to infer anything of the sort. You seem to be saying that the written evidence should be regarded as legends (ie not based in fact) when there is no archaeological evidence. That implies that the stories of Norse landings in North America were legends before L'Anse aux Meadows was discovered, and based in fact afterwards. In actual fact, those stories were just as true before L'Anse aux Meadows was discovered as they were afterwards.
Let me restate, no proof of presence is not the same thing as proof of absence. For example, we have a television programme here in the UK called TimeTeam. It is a programme where archaeologists go to a site and do their stuff. There are plenty of episodes where the archaeologists can't prove presence of a building even though the site was picked due to other evidence that something was there. That other proof sometimes even included drawings and sometimes even photos for the more recent buildings. By your logic, should we regard the drawings as legends (ie fake) because the archaeological evidence didn't support them?
Apologies if I seem not very impressed with archaeology, but we physicists consider it very much at the astrology end of the astrology-astronomy scale of sciences. Indiana Jones was cool though

[Kerr the Walker]

So that would make Columbus, and his mixed crew of Italians, Spanish and other Med dwellers, the Third group of honkies in North America.

Honkies....I love it. It's a good thing I didn't have coffee in my mouth when I read that. I'd be out another keyboard/monitor.

[AcuteEnigma]

The Prince Henry Sinclair expedition was in 1398.
http://sinclair.quarterman.org/sinclair/who/henry.html

Some consider it proven, some don't.

Supposedly DNA information will be out soon, but I'm not holding my breath.

[TheKiltedWonder]

The Prince Henry Sinclair expedition was in 1398.
http://sinclair.quarterman.org/sinclair/who/henry.html

Some consider it proven, some don't.

Supposedly DNA information will be out soon, but I'm not holding my breath.

I wouldn't trust any source that uses that first sentence..."incented a number of organizations and publications". I'm just imagining Henry Sinclair wandering around spraying perfume on people and magazines. Or handing out incentives. Whichever.

[AcuteEnigma]

in·cent (ĭn-sěnt') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. in·cent·ed, in·cent·ing, in·cents

To incentivize: "would use tax breaks to incent corporations to invest in their future" (Scott Canon).

[Back-formation from incentive.]

(from Dictionary.com)

[Bugbear]

I'm just a little country boy, alone out here in the desert, so I don't know anything about these big words.

However, I have seen several myths, that were tought to me as historical fact, torn apart and exposed as myth. I also know that events of the past are now being looked at again in new ways, with new tools, and in ways that would have been over looked or written off not too long ago.

So, the history books are never really closed.

[Bigkahuna]

I believe there are also stories of a Welsh prince who traveled around America way before Columbus and ended up living with the Mandans out on the Great Plains.