Roman Sword found in Nova Scotia questions history of Americas

[Old Sweat]

Gee, how did the Romans survive there all that long without being detected or assimilated?

 

[larry Strong]

The lab lady paid by the shows producers?

IIRC - was not wearing my hearing aids - she was employed by the local university.


Larry

 

[a_majoor]

History may well be far stranger than we imagine. While I am not qualified to examine all of Mowat's arguments, I find the overall argument persuasive enough to think that someone should be looking seriously at it:

The Farfarers: Before the Norse by Farley Mowat(Author)

 

[Old Sweat]

History may well be far stranger than we imagine. While I am not qualified to examine all of Mowat's arguments, I find the overall argument persuasive enough to think that someone should be looking seriously at it:

The Farfarers: Before the Norse by Farley Mowat(Author)

I've read it. I think it is a case of the author having fun with geography, but who knows? Definitely unproven.

 

[Remius]

Gee, how did the Romans survive there all that long without being detected or assimilated?

Cloaking device.

 

[Old Sweat]

Cloaking device.

Or they were busy digging on Oak Island.  :facepalm:

 

[Remius]

I blame Rip Hunter.  He messed with the timeline and now we are dealing with this mess. 

 

[Retired AF Guy]

If anyone is interested, Andy White is an anthropological archaeologist based in the U.S..  He has been blogging about this "Swordgate" on almost a daily basis including comments by  Dr. Christa Brosseau who examined the sword and because of non-disclosure issues couldn't comment until the show appeared on Canadian TV (which premieres a week behind the US).

http://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog

Edited to add more info.

 

[Staff Weenie]

The analysis actually shows that the sword cannot have been made before the 1880's, so it could be quite recent. Interesting read on her methodology.

 

[larry Strong]

Thanks for the link. Interesting read.

Cheers
Larry

 

[NavyShooter]

#Swordgate is still proceeding...

https://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/fake-hercules-swords.html

Apparently there are now 21 different copies of similar swords in their informational database.

The "100% confirmed" Roman Sword appears to be quite firmly debunked...and in an interesting twist, deliberately done to take down a 'fake history' guy who has been arguing for its reality.

 

[larry Strong]

The idea of 'engineers' from centuries ago creating the water tunnels, etc, is, well, kind of far-fetched in my opinion.
NS

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/iran-qanat-irrigation-engineering-history-video/

Aqueducts went underground as well......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqueduct_(water_supply)




Larry