Romans in Texas
More recently,
Dr Valentine Belfiglio , a professor at Texas Woman's University
wrote an article "Circumstantial
Evidence in Support of an Encounter Between Indian Texans and
Ancient Romans" Dr Belfiglio found reports of
a mysterious shipwreck In the Galveston Daily News Archives,
apparently in 1886 a ship whose construction is typically
Greco-Roman was unearthed by severe
storms that year. The Galveston Daily News reported on July 9, 1886,
that
“Her stern, or what is supposed to be her
stern, is put together in such a manner as to contradict any reasonable
supposition that she was a vessel fashioned even as early as the sixteenth
century. It is composed of the most massive and solid oak, fully six or
seven inches in thickness, and the pieces laid crosswise over each other,
secured with huge iron spikes, totally unlike any craft coming within the
category of modern construction”
In 1993 Dr Belfiglio and others embarked on an expedition
in the Galveston Bay area of St. Joseph Island to search for Roman artifacts
“An ancient coin {was} unearthed from eight inches below
the surface, 25 feet from shore, on the beach facing the Gulf of Mexico at
the southeast section of the island. The discovery was made on September 5,
1993 at 10:35 A.M. Kamron identified the languahe of the inscription on the
coin as Latin. The likeness and inscription on the coin indicate that it was
minted during the reign of Trajan (A.D. 98-117). It appears to be made of
silver”.”
Belfiglio cites accounts of Roman coins unearthed in Texas,
such as one found in Round Rock, Texas on the bottom of an Indian
mound dated at approximately 800 AD.
Belfiglio also cites apparent linguistic and cultural similarities
between the Romans and the
Karankawa Indians. [The Karankawa are
mentioned elsewhere on this site See:
Giants of Ancient America]
Jeremiah Epstein, wrote a short article refuting some
of Belfiglio's claims. Most noteworthy is his feasible
hypothesis that the coins could have been dropped on top of the
mound in Post Columbian times and carried underground by rodents and
tree roots.
Romans in Brazil
In 1976 in the Bay of Guanabara, near Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2 clay
storage vessels , known as amphorae were discovered by a diver. In 1982
at the same location archaeologist, and treasure-hunter
Robert F. Marx
found thousands of pottery fragments , including many partial amphorae.
They are believed to be from the wreck of a Roman ship of the 2nd
Century BC . A bottom survey by Harold E. Edgerton, an MIT
researcher, located what Marx thought to be remains of two
disintegrating ships.
Romans In Brazil During The Second Third Century?
Romans in Arizona
The Tucson Artifacts
and The City of Terra Calalus
In 1924 Charles Manier and his father went hiking through the
desert northwest of Tucson . At a place called Silverbell Road they discovered a
cache of religious items, weapons and tools, emblazoned with Latin text dated
between A.D. 700 and 900. The artifacts leave the impression of having
been left by a Judeo-Christian Community attempting colonization in the
Americas.
Some suspect that this cache is a hoax. For one the term "AD" is used in the
inscriptions to denote several dates, this term was not believed to have been in
general use at the time the artifacts are alleged to have hailed from. {The Anno
Domini dating system was devised in A.D.525 by Dionysius Exiguus, who used it to
compute the date of the Christian Easter , the Romans of this epoch tale landed
in America in A.D.775 }
The number system used is Hindu-Arabic which also didn't come
into general use in Europe until the 12th and 13th centuries, the
accepted system at the time the artifacts allege to hail from was the Roman
Numeral system {I ,II, III, IV ...}. however, Hebrew symbols are also present,
which would tend to suggest that these were people not necessarily of Europe,
but elsewhere within the Roman sphere of influence, which encompassed the entire
Mediterranean and most of the Middle East .
" ...Dr. Fowler, Charles T. Vorhies (..University of Arizona),
A.E. Douglass (Directory of the Steward Observatory), Dean Byron Cummings
(Director of the Arizona State Museum) and the Museum's Assistant Director, Karl
Ruppert, were present when the heavily inscribed crucifix had been excavated
under their professional supervision. Later, Dean Cummings verified that all the
objects had been removed directly from the gravel pit at the lime kiln under
scientifically controlled conditions.
The Dean of the College of Mines and Engineering at the
University of Arizona, Dr. Gordon Montague Butler, personally excavated two halves of
a leaden spear-shaft from the lime kiln ('Arizona Star', February 17,
1928).'Even if we accept the hypothesis that the soil was washed down by the
rains,' he declared, 'it is ridiculous to contend that the objects were
buried there within recent years. There is no evidence of burial or of recent
disturbance. To have 'planted' the soil in place would have necessitated moving
tons of it at a time."
Dr. Alexander A. Stoyanow (Professor of Geology), Dr. T.T. Waterman (Associate
Professor of Anthropology), and no less than ten other professional colleagues
concurred with Dr. Butler's assessment of the spear parts' genuineness. He was
soon joined by other leading academic figures of the day, including Phoenix
archaeologist, Dr. O.A. Turney; Tucson science writer, Clifton J. Sarle, Ph.D.;
and Wade H. Ellis, of Washington, D.C.'s National Archaeological Society.
The experts were unanimous in their conclusion that the Silverbell Road
materials were authentic artifacts From overseas visitors at
least 600 years before Columbus arrived in the New World. "
http://www.theonlinelisting.com/society-communities/article6931.htm
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A silver coin minted circa 180 AD was discovered In 1882
outside Fayetteville, Tennessee, not far away around the same time
another ancient coin was found in Fayetteville while digging a cellar.
{Western Messenger Volumes 6 -7}