Posted on 04/14/2002 6:23:47 AM PDT by Hellmouth
If one searches long enough and hard enough, one can discover hints that just about any ancient culture you care to name set foot in the New World well before the Vikings and Columbus. Old coins, inscriptions, language concordances, and the like are taken by many as proofs that Egyptians visited Oklahoma, the Chinese moored along the Pacific coast, the Celts toured New England, and so on. Now, according to Professor V. Belfiglio, the ancient Romans had Texas on their itineraries.
Belfiglio's evidence is fourfold, and so are mainstream criticisms:
(Lee, Victoria; "Professor Explores Theory of Romans' Ancient Voyage," Dallas Morning News, June 13, 1993. Cr. T. Adams via L. Farish.)
A literate person knows the "AD" is placed in front of the date.In other words, you believe me to be illiterate. Bye.
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The preponderance of evidence, taken as a whole, makes it more likely than not that ancient Romans visited the southeast coast of Texas during the 4th century A.D. Evidence consists of the wreck of a Roman cargo ship, unearthed at Galveston, the remnants of an ancient bridge at Pelican Island, Texas, Roman coins found near the site, and similarities between the Karankawan Indian language and Latin offer positive evidence-see HERA magazine, No. 888, (May, 2007).
I was just checking some older topics and found your post. Is there an English language version of Hera, or a website? Thanks.
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So, if Roman coins made it to Japan, the great Japanese tsunamis of 684 869 887 1293 1361 1498 or 1605 may have delivered them to a number of different places.
Oh, and as we've seen with the latest event, there's enough stuff carried along it is conceivable the debris fields could have supported a number of travelers as well ~ thereby explaining Japanese in Arizona, El Salvador, Chile, etc.
Exactly.
Happy to be alive on dry land...anywhere.
My Dad sold DeSotos for a lining.
My Dad sold DeSotos for a living. I remember that one of the fancier hood ornaments had a little DeSoto face on it that was lit up (an option).
Hell, everybody loves Texas and she's gettin' purtier ever' day.
Traces of South American coca have been found in the tissues of ancient Egyptian mummies, too.
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Well, if the Sabines got there, why not the Romans? Look at the map—there is a Sabine River in Texas. The first generation of Romans got their wives by kidnapping some Sabine girls. Livy tells the story—but he leaves out that the Romans had to come all the way to Texas to get them.
It’s been a couple years since I’ve been through Kennewick, will probably go this year. Want me to get anything for you?:)
Don’t forget the forbidden caves in the Grand Canyon (forbidden by US Govt.)
Noli Texas tangere.
Didn’t CLive Cussler write a book about this?
http://historichouston1836.com/english-colonists-graves/
If all of these folks came to this hemisphere why didn’t at least one of them bring the wheel?
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