Did the ROMANS discover America? Radical theory claims sword found on Oak Island...

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Thursday, December 17, 2015 | Ellie Zolfagharifard

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full title, "Did the ROMANS discover America? Radical theory claims sword found on Oak Island suggests ancient mariners set foot on the New World before Columbus".

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Pulitzer's report also details a number of Mi'kmaq carved images by indigenous people drawn on cave walls in Nova Scotia. Some of these images show what Pulitzer believes to be Roman legionnaires marching [Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax]

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A couple days early, but looks like a fun one for the weekly Digest ping.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Is this the same place all the copper had been mined?

[Raycpa]

So, not aliens?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Oh! My God.

All of north America is descended from Roman Caucasians!

[Flag_This]

I thought the gladius had a steel blade....

[IYAS9YAS]

Watching “The Curse of Oak Island” is kind of fun. They’ve found some interesting things. Some theories are kind of kooky, but they’re not the ones presenting them. They just want to find what’s there.

[Cold Heart]

No. Oak Island has been the one where they are digging for treasure in Nova Scotia. Its been a series on TV for a couple years now. I missed the last show because I watched the debate. It will repeat before the next show on Tuesday. (History channel)
The copper mine island is in Lake Superior. (also featured on the history ch, or was it H2)

[ozzymandus]

Last week it was the Aztecs, before that the Knights Templar, pirates, the British Navy, and I forget who else. I imagine a lot of people have been to Oak Island in the last few thousand years.

[Larry Lucido]

Well, there are a lot of Little Caesar’s pizzerias around.

[Cold Heart]

It might be loot from “all of the above”

[Bob434]

oak island, the longest running snoozefest around (Yes I’ve watched every episode lol)

Getting mighty tired of the “Could this writing on the rock indicated that Templars slept here on oak island on a stormy night In the middle of may in the year ...” (Gee, I don’t know Mr Narrator man- how about you just tell us whether it does or not, and stop with the drama?)- and getting tired of watching a whole hour of show only to know nothing more than what the preview blurb shows for next week’s show-

Ugggh- Find something significant already- a couple of years of searching to find only a few marked stones, a coupel of coins and a sword just aint cutting it entertainment wise

[Bob434]

[[I missed the last show because I watched the debate. ]]

That’s why we have cable dvr box which records- so we can watch later AND skip all the non action scenes and long drawn out ‘could this be an ancient Aztec iron bolt used to ... blah blah blah- I’m at the point now where I fast forward till I see someone pulling something out of the ground

[Roger Kaputnik]

Oak Island?! Isn’t that the island where prospectors have been looking for buried treasure for the last 200 years but haven’t found shiite?

Yawn.

Wake me up when they find the Templar treasure.

[SunkenCiv]

The hilt decor looks a little fruity to me, not an expert at all, but mitigating toward authenticity may be the apparent lack of writing. It appears to be made of bronze, and I think it was identified as ceremonial. The big problem of course is, it's already being rejected on a priori grounds (which are not grounds at all) and having seen the TV show, a whole lot of crap is going to be pureed into a mash that has no validity or meaning. It's not hard to accept Precolumbian contact, not at all, but the Oak Island 'treasure' is 100 percent the amount of jokes at the expense of people who look for it, a list of people which includes FDR.

Andy White's comparison of the sword promoted by Pulitzer (left) and one owned by a Florida diffusionist. [JasonColavito, The Skeptical Xenoarchaeologist]

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“Sounds like a shoe style. ‘Gimme the white caucasians in the nine-B.’” — George Carlin

[SunkenCiv]

Well, not so far... but I haven’t seen all the episodes. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Nope, that’s Isle Royale (Michigan’s only National Park, last I knew) and the Upper Peninsula a.k.a. “the U.P.” of Michigan. Gavin Menzies, the 1421 author, has a book out pinning all that Precolumbian copper mining on the Minoans.