[muawiyah]

There's a very good argument that no one from the Old World made it to the New World from truly ancient times until about 800 AD when the bow and arrow suddenly appeared in the Americas.

Good candidates for the "culture bearers" who brought that instrument are the Vikings.

On the other hand, in truly ancient times there just about had to be cocaine dealers from Bolivia making it all the way to the Mediterranean!

[presidio9]

We have two seperate 1st century Roman shipwrecks in very different parts of South America that prove the Romans were here. What we don't know is if anyone ever returned to Europe.