[Theoria]

its all greek to me ping..

[Leep]

Canada is paying for this,right?

[Mount Athos]

I think it’s entirely possible that ancient long ocean migrations took place one way, with prevailing winds and currents.
They just couldn’t go back home.

I wouldn’t be shocked to find some greeks made it to newfoundland, had a colony for 3 years and died out

[Darteaus94025]

Right up there with the Polish space program.

[yarddog]

I think ancient people visited many places on earth. Probably did not make a round trip tho.

Sometimes wonder if they mixed with locals tho.

[butlerweave]

I think I saw that movie

[Conan the Librarian]

The Portuguese and Basques regularly chased Cod to Newfoundland. Fisher folk would go where the fish were. They just didn’t tell anyone else about it, so, that they could control the market.

[Rummyfan]

If the Tahitians could make it to Hawaii, and the Vikings to North America, why not the Greeks? I’ll wait for the Greek Thor Heyerdahl to prove it though.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Anyone remember an old book THEY ALL DISCOVERED AMERICA published back in the 1960s?

Many Americans of the early 1800s were firm believers the Mandan Indians were really Kelts or Welsh from England.

[Mr. K]

those distances look very far apart but if you look on a globe they are actually much closer together. And Iceland looks much much smaller.

They just hugged the shorelines and kept finding more and more. I would guess they went much further south than Canada too, to find warmer weather and food.

[dainbramaged]

Did they dig the money pit on Oak Island?

[ek_hornbeck]

There was a news story some years ago about Greek amphorae (jugs) and coins found by scuba divers in a bay off the coast of Brazil or some other South American country. So either ancient Greek sailors made it to the New World, or someone transporting ancient Greek artifacts much more recently lost their cargo overboard.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

It makes zero sense, especially to a superstitious/religious people like the Greeks. When they encounters the horrible weather, freezing climate of Iceland, Greenland, etc, there's just no reason they'd have persisted. Especially in craft that were not capable of ocean voyaging.

If anything, it's far more likely that this refers to Thule or some other variation of it either on, or directly offshore, the Eurasian continent.

[DCBryan1]

That would explain all the homos up there ;)

[DCBryan1]

That would explain all the homos up there ;)

[Varda]

Greeks to Canada.... why do people want to believe such stuff. There is no evidence, zippo. I wonder sometimes if people get high around a bonfire, have a stream of consciousness and decide to run with it.

[COBOL2Java]

Rajmund Krivec, a physicist at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia who has studied Greek triremes, says the vessels’ speeds can vary greatly owing to various modes of rowing, and much depends on the strength of the crew and the ocean conditions.

It was the Ouzo!

[buffaloguy]

I think it is likely that the Greeks reached New Foundland. The route was not as far as most maps show and may have been better know than we know.

Over the years I have come to the conclusion that archaeolgists don’t own boats.
The richest people of the time were shippers and we’re talking Gates level numbers.

Sailors will sail and putting together a group of 5 or 6 triremes would not be a problem for most shippers. Quite easy actually.

I also suspect that there was a lot more travel between the continents was than we know.

[sparklite2]

They dug into the science to show how it could have happened.
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