[SunkenCiv]

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".

CAPTION

[arthurus]

All ancient copper has impurities peculiar to the area from which it was mined. Most of the bronze ̣(copper-tin alloy) that survives from the Bronze Age is unaccounted for in the literature. The impurities in almost all of the unsourced copper in that bronze matches the copper that is found in the extensive and extensively mined copper lodes by Lake Superior which mining seems to have occurred back in the European Bronze age. A curious anomaly, that.

[knarf]

Sarge ... I left it in my locker ... and now it’s GONE !!!

[BenLurkin]

Enjoying that show but strongly suspect that some of these finds are “salted”.

[Little Ray]

Late to the game.
Clive Cussler wrote a book about this. Apparently, there are shipwrecks with amphora in South America and other physical evidence found in Texas.

[Red Badger]

possible.

[central_va]

Roman ships were capable of trans Atlantic voyage. Poor navigation techniques and superstition were the key hindrance preventing them.

[dfwgator]

Other than that, what have the Romans EVER done for us?

[gnarledmaw]

I know that this means exactly nothing but I don't think that's ancient at all. Im pretty sure Ive seen that before. I could be confused because for various reasons I have spent a lot of time searching for ancient weapons on line and have always made a point of going to as many museums as possible. The memory isn't clear but the drawer its in is labeled "19th century reproductions, clubs and secret societies, ritual".

It should be relatively cheap and easy to send it to a university to check the origin by profile of the metals composition. If they really suspect it of being authentic the tests would have been done already.