What we know about history is always changing with new discoveries. For a long time, Columbus's famed voyage of 1492 was thought to be the first European travel to the Americas, until evidence of a Viking settlement that pre-dated Columbus's voyage by about 500 years was found at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
Now, a tiny, bright blue shred of evidence suggests that we might need to re-think the history of North America a little more.