Roman Sword Found In America

Yep that's what I said, it smelled a little fishy to me. A thirty dollar sword he probably put in the ocean for a couple months and now he's the great discoverer. Unfortunately now if someone really finds something important people are going to remember this BS and probably not believe it. So the Viking's number one spot is still secure. Still waiting on more information on the Kensington Stone as well, they're now saying that it may actually be authentic. 

Sorry no news not need

People kept posting this on the Roman History Facebook page for the past few days.  It sparked much derision.  I wish I could have posted the Walmart sword address there, but all those posts have been removed.

Rome FTW

I wouldn't be surprised if some Irishmen had made it across.  The question is who had ships that could actually cross the Atlantic?

There are stories of an Irish priest called St. Brendan sailing across to this continent before the Vikings but no hard evidence to support it. A lot of people from other countries have claimed it but the Vikings are the only ones so far to prove it.

Well there is DNA evidence of Africans in Brazil. And DNA evidence of Japanese in South American in fact a village in S America has markers only found on one Japanese Island population with many similarities between the two cultures. And there are Chinese anchors off the coast of California. It is also actually widely accepted that fishing vessels were brought to the Americas across the Atlantic from all over Europe and Africa due to storms, though it is thought those were one way trips.

So I would not say Vikings are the only ones at all.

And if one wants to get into "suppressed" info, there is a theory that there was a massive copper exportation from the Great Lakes to Europe to supply the European bronze age. The theory goes that there was not enough copper in the old world to make all the bronze that was made, and it had to come from somewhere. In the Great Lakes they found ancient copper mines, but no evidence of the amount of copper that was taken from it in the Americas.

Though as I said this is theory, and not an accepted one. At lest yet. I don't know all that much about it, but if true it would change a lot of history.

Remember folks, the sword can be bought at Walmart.  I guess one could say that the Walmart sword is a copy of some antique original.  But I sure haven't seen any original Roman sword that looked anything like this bronze monstrosity.  Anyone?

I wonder if Phoenicians/Carthaginians could have visited the New World?  They are the most likely candidates, though again, I don't know if their ships were seaworthy enough to go transatlantic.  They defineitely went out into the Ocean, but AFIAK, stuck close to the European and African shorelines.  It seems to me that the most likely early way would be the northern route, with landfalls in Iceland and Greenland to cut down on long, landless stretches.