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The E-Sylum: Volume 18, Number 51, December 20, 2015, Article 31

OAK ISLAND ' ROMAN SWORD' FIND

Dick Hanscom forwarded this Daily Mail article, adding, "I have always been fascinated by Oak Island, but this is a stretch!" -Editor

COak Island 'Roman' sword hristopher Columbus landed in what is now the Bahamas in 1492. But was he the first non-indigenous person to reach the Americas?

Over the years several radical theories have emerged that the Vikings, the Polynesians and the Chinese, arrived before Columbus.

Now, a new group of researchers has come up with another controversial theory; they say the Romans set foot in the New World more than a thousand years earlier.

Researchers, led by Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, claim they have evidence that Roman ships visited North America 'during the first century or earlier.' Their theory centres on the discovery of what they believe to be a Roman sword on Oak Island, off Nova Scotia.

Mainstream historians usually dismiss these finds as inaccurate, claiming artefacts such as this can be dropped by collectors in modern times, according to The Boston Standard.

Scientists are currently unable to rule this out as a possibility, shedding doubt on these claims.

To read the complete article, see:
Did the ROMANS discover America? Radical theory claims sword found on Oak Island suggests ancient mariners set foot on the New World before Columbus (www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3364818/Did-ROMANS-discover-America-Sword-Oak-Island-suggests-ancient-mariners-set-foot-New-World-Columbus-according-radical-theory.html)

To read the Boston Standard article, see:
Startling new report on Oak Island could ‘rewrite history’ of the Americas (www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/local/startling-new-report-on-oak-island-could-rewrite-history-of-the-americas-1-7118097)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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