Posted on 10/02/2024 3:12:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Many believe that St. Brendan, an Irish monk, discovered parts of the Americas long before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Others suggest he may have landed on islands like the Canaries, Azores, or Madeira. However, ancient Irish records don’t make it clear where he truly traveled there.
Some researchers claim that groups such as the Phoenicians, Japanese, Chinese, and Basques arrived long before Columbus, following the Native Americans, according to The Irish Times.
However, this part of history provides little solid proof. Because of this, myths have sprouted alongside reliable theories and facts. Some of these myths are spread by historians with personal beliefs or agendas. Others come from people who purposely fabricate false stories.
Despite this, exploring early contact with the Americas is crucial for historians. At one time, people believed Leif Erikson’s Norse settlement in Vinland was just a legend to entertain Vikings through the long winters. Even a Norse map from 1440, showing the North American coast, was once deemed fictional, as reported by The Irish Times.
In 1960, archaeologists found the remains of a Norse village at L’Anse aux Meadows, located on Newfoundland, a Canadian island. This site is now considered the only clear evidence, outside of Greenland, that others reached the Americas before Columbus did.
Grecian Delight supports Greece Arab documentary “We Discovered America Before Columbus” Saudi filmmaker Khalid Abualkair has released a documentary titled “We Discovered America Before Columbus.” The film explores the idea that the Arabs of al-Andalus and the Muslim kingdom of Mali may have reached the Americas centuries before Columbus.
PROMO WE DISCOVERED AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS ENGLISH
A significant part of this claim about the Arabs of al-Andalus comes from the work of historian Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo y Maura, the 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia in Spain. Known as the “Red Duchess” for her opposition to the dictator Franco—who imprisoned and later exiled her—she inherited one of Europe’s largest private archives.
Through her research, she became convinced that the Arabs of al-Andalus, which is now Andalusia in modern Spain, and Morocco had discovered and traveled to the northern parts of South America regularly.
The duchess claimed that her archives held early references to plants native to the Americas, including maize and peppers, long before Columbus’s arrival. She published two books outlining her theory. The first, It Wasn’t Us, came out during the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s journey, intentionally sparking controversy.
Abualkair’s documentary also explores another potential pre-Columbian connection: the story of Abu Bakr II, the king of Mali during the 14th century. As Mansa of Mali, Abu Bakr II ruled over a large part of West Africa, a region known for its vast gold wealth. His adventures add another layer to the theory of early Muslim contact with the Americas.
The Irish monk sobered up from a two month drunk-on when he ran aground in Nova Scotia.
“I dont know why people want to give the Arabs credit for doing everything.”
Didn’t the bastards invent algebra...whuch I failed and will never forgive them!😎
Of course, the space aliens were there before all of them.
The issue is not “who was first” but “what came of it”, and as for the “Arabs” (or was it the Berbers) of “Andalusia” we KNOW - that nothing came of it, where as the European conquests of the Americas followed EUROPEAN explorations of the western hemisphere, which followed the explorations of Columbus. Columbus matters - the “Arabs” (Berbers??) don’t, as history was neither made nor altered in the west by them.
“I have read that cocaine and tobacco, known only in the Americas, was detected in the mummy of Ramses II aka Ramses the great.
This would imply that there was some sort of contact between Egypt and the Americas from around 2000 BC - at least.
People did get around by boat in extreme antiquity.”
I wish that was true for sure but there is question. While I absolutely believe they were seafaring way back then, the Cocaine Mummy has purportedly been debunked. They claim that there is a similar edible plant in the old world that also tests positive as Cocaine. Apparently it is supposed to be like the the Poppy seed muffin situation where simple Poppy seeds test positive as opiates.
That is the story anyway...
But then there is this... Cuneiform in ancient South America.
http://solomonsblondes.blogspot.com/2016/07/cuneiform-bowl-from-bolivia-crespi.html
obozo is NOT a member of some super race.
Who cares?
Fanciful, but being coked up would explain how they built all those pyramids. ;-)
LOL.
ttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2129042-first-americans-may-have-been-neanderthals-130000-years-ago/
“Fanciful, but being coked up would explain how they built all those pyramids. ;-) “
Finally! They mystery of the pyramids SOLVED!
Hope they do not claim to be so called “Palestinians.”
They will yell with Calif students
“from the A to the P,
we want your land for free.”
Then they will steal all the Pizza Hut tablecloths and wear them on their heads and scream a lot.
We will have to rename southern California into Gaza, and of course they all were going to more there anyway.
Good luck diggin’ the tunnels through the mountains!
When we regard at your FR name,
we suspect YOU discovered America!
We have squatters' rights and changed all the locks. It will take years to get us to leave.
-PJ
Dude: Stop posting from the BS site greek reporter.
The premise of the garbage article they posted is about a ‘theory’ rooted merely in archival records of plants & seeds.
This after the post yesterday about the Hindenburg, a repost of their own piece from over 2 years ago without any citation whatsoever. In fact, they redirect links on the web to the original URL to the new article as though it is current content.
It’s a hack clickbait site, and you’re driving them more clicks.
“.... the Cocaine Mummy has purportedly been debunked.”
One has to be cautious about the debunkers. There was also tobacco found in the mummy, again only source from Americas.
Which all are part of the geopolitical region known as "North America."
List of sovereign states in North America
Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States
Too many of the serial posters here are in too big a hurry to run up their post count (and get their pat on the head) to be bothered to pause long enough to vet or even superficially assess what they're posting.
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