Posted on 12/19/2015 12:11:17 AM PST by wille777
Researchers, led by Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, claim they have evidence that Roman ships visited North America 'during the first century or earlier.'
Their theory centers on the discovery of what they believe to be a Roman sword on Oak Island, off Nova Scotia.
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Oh, piss off! lol
Heh! I was wondering if anyone would catch that.
“Can I ask the story’s? I would be fascinated to read such an account. It seems quite probable to me.”
I first ran across the story some decades ago while reading some books about pre-Columbian New World archaeology. A quick search of the Internet came up with this website that tells much of the same story about the Yuchi, their festival, language, and worship. Note the connection to King Solomon. See:
The Saga of Ancient Hebrew Explorers
Who Really Discovered America?
Did ancient Hebrews reach the shores of the North and South American continents thousands of years before Christopher Columbus? What evidence is there for Hebrew and Israelite occupation of the Western Hemisphere even a thousand years before the Messiah? Was trans-Atlantic commerce and travel fairly routine in the days of king Solomon of Israel? Read here the intriguing, fascinating saga of the TRUE DISCOVERERS OF AMERICA!
http://hope-of-israel.org/hebinusa.htm
There are also a variety of sources regarding Hebrew/Jewish populations in the pre-Columbian and post-Columbian Americas. In particular, there is a wide variety of stories, historical records, and DNA evidence describing Sephardic Jews, Middle Eastern populations, Syrians, Berbers, and other Mediterranean people living in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries Americas, especially in and nearby the Appalachian region. Some of the Cherokee Indian bands have DNA which is reported to have more Jewish and other Middle Eastern and North African DNA than most European Jews of today. This is often explained as the descendants of the Sephardic Jewish miners in 17th Century Virginia, Carolinas, and Georgia; while other stories connect some of the others to the survivors of the early failed Spanish 16th Century colonies in the Carolinas traveling upstream to find water and defensible territory during the great drought.
A few samples of online sources:
DNA scientists claim that Cherokees are from the Middle East
http://www.examiner.com/article/dna-scientists-claim-that-cherokees-are-from-the-middle-east
Southeastern Native Americans with Jewish DNA
September 29, 2013 Richard Thornton
http://peopleofonefire.com/southeastern_native_americans_with_jewish_dna.html
Wikipedia has an article about hypothetical pre-Columbian contacts:
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Romans could have gotten to America—but did they get back to Europe?
Yep. I don’t really have a dog in the fight, either. I find it interesting. That’s all. I am really impressed with what those explorers were able to accomplish with the equipment they had.
Life of Brian is an absolute classic. It is fine satire adn spares nothing. The devout Christians often think it is sacriligeous yet it rarely targets God. 99% of the movie target’s man’s stupidy. Great movie. The Biggus Dickus scene had me choking with laughter the first time I saw it. You can see they make several cuts in the scene because they were laughing so hard making it.
“Romans could have gotten to America—but did they get back to Europe?”
Yes, it is highly likely. The Gulf Stream in conjunction with the Westerlies would act like a conveyor belt to take shipping from North America to Celtic Ireland and Roman Britain. The story of Merlin in the lands to the West woven into the legend of King Arthur (Imperator Artorius) may have been inspired by oral traditions relating to contacts in North America.
“Remember the Mexican fisherman that washed up alive on on Guam after drifting for over a year across the Pacific?”
Who Built New England's Megalithic Monuments?
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