Pajhwok Afghan News 10/15/2007 By Danish Karokhel [Printer Friendly Version] KABUL – Christopher Columbus may be rocked on his pedestal by an unlikely contender. A book authored by a Canadian writer claims that Buddhist monks from Afghanistan discovered America a thousand years before Columbus. Popular history believes that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492 while… Continue reading Afghans discovered America a thousand years before Christopher, says a new book