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Did the Romans Beat Columbus to it? Scientists Make Extraordinary New Claim About Discovery of America
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The year 1492 is etched in history as the date America was discovered.
Christopher Columbus’s pioneering journey has, for centuries, been considered Europe’s first contact with the continent.
But, although there is a degree of evidence to suggest a Norse settlement some 500 years earlier, other discussions about prior discoveries have fallen into category pseudo science.
The sword is believed to be Roman (SWNS)
But now a team of scientists claim to have found evidence they believe could “rewrite the history” of America.
They say it was first discovered by the Romans.
The new study claims ancient mariners visited the New World more than a 1,000 years before Columbus set foot there.
Researchers from the Ancient Artifact Preservation Society (AAPS) say a Roman sword was discovered in a shipwreck off Oak Island on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada.
The research reveals that a Roman legionnaire’s whistle, Gold Carthage coins, part of a Roman shield and a Roman head sculpture have also been found on the island.
Lead historian Jovan Hutton Pulitzer insists the haul is firm evidence the Romans landed there first and is the “single most important discovery” ever for the Americas.
“The ceremonial sword came out of that shipwreck. It is 100 per cent confirmed as Roman.
“I began my forensic work into it using an XRF analyser – which is a leading archaeological tool for analysing metals.
“And we found all these other metals that tell you this was made from ore that came directly from the ground.
“It has the same arsenic and lead signature in it. We’ve been able to test this sword against another one like it and it matches.
“Some years ago, a man and his son were scalloping off Oak Island, which sees them hang a rake-like object off the back of their boat.
The location of the find (SWNS)
“They put it under the surface and when they brought this up, the sword came up with it.
“The father kept it for decades, and when he died it went to his wife, then his daughter.
“Then when she died many years later it went to her husband. It was he who approached me and said ‘I think you should know about this and where it was found’.
“The shipwreck is still there and has not been worked,” he said.
Oak Island is a privately-owned 57-hectare island in Lunenburg County on the south shore of Nova Scotia.
It has been at the centre of one of the biggest treasure hunts in history, which began in in 1795 centring on the infamous ‘Money Pit’ – a 230ft booby-trapped shaft which is thought to contain valuable artifacts.
Since 1795, six treasure hunters have lost their lives trying to excavate the pit.
The treasure, including this coin, was found on Oak Island (SWNS)
Mr Pulitzer thinks theories like his are too readily dismissed because they do not conform with traditionally held religious and political beliefs.
He added: “We have absolutely been lead to believe that nothing happened on this side of the pond before Christopher Columbus.
“That’s a church-induced concept. All the ancient records that exist make it very clear the world was circumnavigated and the world was round.
“But when the Catholic Church and the Romans came in, all those records were destroyed – so we had to kind of re-learn this stuff.”
The team plans to publish its report in full early next year.
(Credit: WikiCommons/ L. Prang & Co., Boston)
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Well, now we can add the Romans into the pile of civilizations that visited America before Columbus. Physical evidence shows the Vikings were here, the ancient Hebrews, Chinese, Egyptians and probably many others. While, this is an important discovery, it’s by no means unique.
Maybe the Roman Legio nona Hispana (“Spanish Ninth Legion”) that went up to Caladonia in Scotland and never came back ended up in Nova Scotia by mistake?
I mean most Trees look pretty similar don’t they
or maybe the Celts just Ate them ?
There are so many different stories of who “Found” America, from it was the Muslims, it was the Vikings, its was the Templars
I’m only guessing but maybe it was the Native America Indians that “Found” America
It’s spurious, to say that nomadic aborigines were native to anywhere.
“Maybe the Roman Legio nona Hispana (“Spanish Ninth Legion”) that went up to Caladonia in Scotland and never came back ended up in Nova Scotia by mistake?”
Nope, they didn’t have ocean going ships. not until the Vikings. They would have been butchered by the the Pict’s in Pictland, they were the only people who beat the Romans. There was no Scotland at that time, not until much later when the Irish Scotti tribe invaded and took over just after the Viking invasions.
TRUTH! THEY’VE KNOWN ABOUT THE “NEW WORLD” FOR THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS!
Quackademia is the Crowning Glory of Ignorance.
Consider the FACT that Vikings were well known to be in New Foundland AND their writings make a clear case they were not the first. Then consider it’s well documented that “VIKING Mercenaries” in fact fought for and served Rome all over the world.
Now IF you received a thourough indoctrination from the ELITE in QUACKADEMIA you would be screaming HOGWASH, My ProFESSOR didn’t teach me that and IF it was TRUE my GAWD PROFESSOR would have told me what to think about it. Non brainwashed people with an actual intellectual capacity for thought might come to a more reasonable conclusion.
The sword is not Roman, it’s Egyptian, clearly displaying the Egyptian sky goddess Nut holding up the sky. http://www.egyptianmyths.net/images/nut2.jpg And together with the fact they found cocaine leaves that only grow in south America in Egyptian mummy wrappings, it’s way more likely that Egypt discovered America before the Vikings and before Columbus, not Rome.