By: Donovan Martin Sr, Editor in Chief History loves simple verbs. Discovered. Founded. Claimed. They sound decisive, authoritative, final. They suggest a moment when something moves from obscurity into relevance. But the more one sits with the word discovery, the more unstable it becomes—especially when applied to places, peoples, and civilizations that were already living, breathing, trading, worshipping, and telling stories long before an outsider arrived with a flag and a pen. We are taught, almost casually, that Christopher Columbus “discovered” the Americas. The phrase is r