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I'm personally of the opinion that certain ancient peoples like the Viking, Celt and Roman traveled over a much larger range of the world than what is usually credited to them. When one considers how knowlege like iron working was cloistered and treated like a "trade secret" for centuries by the Scythians, it doesn't take much of a leap of logic to consider that certain families or tribes might have obtained and then concealed knowlege of distant, unknown lands, and the ways to get there and back.

I would not be at all surprised to find that Romans had once landed on American shores, either by accident or intent, nor would I be surprised to find that they had founded short-lived colonies here.

It wouldn't surprise me either. My question,in this instance,is,"What in the world did they come to the Gulf Coast for?" Nothing that's easily available on the gulf coast of Texas comes to mind as being worth the time,effort,and hazard of a long voyage in an open boat. The furs aren't of any exceptional quality,I don't think they were planning on drilling oil wells,and there aren't any particularly valuable minerals there,that I know of.

This,at least to my way of thinking,would argue for an accidental landing-possibly a good sized ship.

>I'm personally of the opinion that certain ancient peoples like the Viking, Celt and Roman traveled over a much larger range of the world than what is usually credited to them. When one considers how knowlege like iron working was cloistered and treated like a "trade secret" for centuries by the Scythians....................

Yep, evidence keeps getting uncovered to make that appear true.

I read an interesting (for it's photos) but otherwise dreadful article on the Scythians today in a 6 year old National Geographic. The editor got most everything wrong and just couldn't bring himself to admit these Scythians were CELTS, in the exact place (north of the Black Sea), and the exact time (7th Century BC) where 5 MILLION CELTS suddenly appear in history. He even had them going in the wrong direction.

It was right there hitting him in the head and he couldn't see it. (Probably too busy thinking about another upcoming article on bugs or "global warming"...)