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Here's the drawings I made with the Roman wreck, and right here is the pinnacle that was sticking almost to the surface that the Roman ship hit. The history books all say Christopher Columbus discovered the New World. I don't believe that. I have a theory that the Romans arrived here 2,200 years ago, long before Christopher Columbus, and we have proof of that.

I'm James Lynch. I'm an explorer. I've been going into the deepest jungles and the deepest waters in South America for the last 40 years, looking for answers to mysteries and unexplained phenomena.

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I'm still convinced that a big part of the wreck is covered over, which is great because that means nobody could have stolen, robbed, or plundered the site while we haven't worked on it all these decades. There is no doubt at all that it's a Roman wreck. When I went to Brazil in the Bay of Guanabara, I found intact Roman amphoras and lots and lots of broken ones. I joined Bob in 1983 when we were diving on this Roman wreck, or what we believe to be a Roman wreck, in Guanabara Bay.

These are two necks of these Roman amphoras that we found at the Bay of Guanabara. These were called the five-gallon storage jugs of antiquity. The work was going forward really well until we had political problems in Brazil, and the project had to stop right there. We've sat on this for decades now; we have to go back. The evidence is there; we've seen it.

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James and I want to go back and continue where I left off all those years ago. We have to bring all the pieces of this puzzle together in a way that is accepted by archaeologists today.

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I want to solve the riddle of the Roman wreck, and I can't go to my grave until that's being taken care of. We'll prove that a Roman vessel entered Guanabara Bay 2,200 years ago and sunk there. If we can prove what we believe is true, it'll change history.

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[Dr. Sivana]

The history books all say Christopher Columbus discovered the New World.

Oh, heck. When I was in elementary school in the 1970s, we were using history books from the 1950s. Even then Leif Erikson was credited with beating Columbus. Columbus gets credit with making it stick. If you get there, and die and no one back home knows . . . no credit. If you get there, shrug your shoulders, and go back and no one knows what you found . . . no credit. If you think you found India, but found Hispaniola, but Portugal, England, Holland, and France are racing to check it out? Credit, and a bunch of cities, countries and a day named after you.