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Ancient sword suggests Romans might have discovered America
- realworldview 11y agoHence pizza
- AUmrysh 11y agoOr not: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3xckcu/sword_found_on_oak_island_suggests_cheap_replica/ https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3xckcu/sword_fo...
- gdilla 11y agoInaccurate title. 1000 years before columbus, first nations people were already living in NA.
- kbart 11y agoIt doesn't say they were the first to do so.
- gdilla 11y agodiscover infers a first, unless it's qualified. Which the title is not.
- kbart 11y agoSo Columbus didn't discover America too, because there were at least few civilizations living there already. All continents (except Antarctica) have their indigenous human population, but discovery is often used from the perspective of western civilization. It's only a matter of the point of view.
- gdilla 11y agoThat's right. And it's an outdated, racist and ethnocentric way of thinking. We know better now than to dehumanize other civilizations.
- jkot 11y agoOak Island == Hoax
- kbart 11y agoActually, I find it perfectly reasonable to believe that during these hundreds years of naval shipping, there were at least some cases of adventurous, misguided or lost ships reaching the coast of Americas. What I don't understand, what's the big deal about that?
- imnotme 11y agoMy thoughts are: a) some lost roman ship luckily ended on the other side of the ocean, not knowing where they are (if they made it alive) or; b) a collector's ship just coming back from Europe devastated by a storm and ended on the floor of the ocean.
- venomsnake 11y agoHardly anything new if this guy could do it - why not the romans too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Severin#The_Brendan_Voyage_.281976.E2.80.931977.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Severin#The_Brendan_Voyage...
- DrScump 11y agoThe Oak Island stuff seems to come up here every few weeks... ... and always from fake news sites. (Have you ever seen a legitimate news site without any real contact information? In this case, there is a contact buried at the bottom, but to a different domain -- and that domain is a dummy for-sale domain.)