REPORT: Did the Phoenicians beat Christopher Columbus by 2000 years?

Christopher Columbus has long been known for being the explorer who sailed from the Old World to the New.

Crossing the great unknown waters between Spain and the Caribbean in 1492, he became one of the most renowned Europeans to set foot in America.

But more than five centuries later, a British adventurer, Former Royal Navy officer Philip Beale plans to show that the New World could have been reached by another seafaring nation 2,000 years before Columbus.

Beale hopes to sail a replica Phoenician boat 10,000 kilometers across the Atlantic in an ambitious voyage that could challenge maritime history.

 

By completing the journey, Beale aims to demonstrate that the Phoenicians had the capability to sail to the U.S.; a theory disputed by historians.