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    Bruce Howell

    I’d feel a lot more comfortable about the controversial nature of this claim if there had been mention of the age and likely origins of the wreck itself, rather than its contents. So has it been determined that the ship itself of Roman origin?

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    Lawrence Short

    You forgot Lance-Aux-Meadows as the western most Viking settlement found so far in North America. It is dated to 1000 AD. Relatively speaking it is not that far from there to Oak Island. Could a Viking have brought a Roman sword with him from Europe and lost the whole trove? Love the mystery of Oak Island. Wonder when they will seek crowdsourcing to finance further exploration.

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    Jean-Pierre Petit

    Frankly what a disservice rendered to History with a title like that …this is for now a very unproven theory nothing else.

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    Jean-Pierre Petit

    Frankly what a disservice rendered to History with a title like that …this is for now a very unproven theory nothing else. The whole site has been spoiled and pilfered by treasure hunters I do not believe that anything grand will come out of it.

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    Bruce Howell

    David DeMar, didn’t you notice the appallingly bad reasoning put forward here. At least you should have checked whether Jovan Hutton Pulitzer has any credentials as an archaeologist.

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    Ben

    I would love to read followups to this. Pictures of the artifacts, vessel remains (timber fragments, ballast stones, etc), dating info, etc. The Romans were an amazing people for their time … it’s entirely possible they made it over here.

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    Andy White

    Wait . . . now all the purported Roman stuff came from the alleged shipwreck? This story keeps getting more and more fantastical. Have you heard that the sword has “magical properties”?

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    Pablo B

    What kind of History degree does he have? If he actually is a Historian, he should be showing all kinds of evidence about the sword before saying it is 100% confirmed; also showing such tests to scientists of different institutions in order to confirm that his supposed finding is authentic. There is a lot of people who doubt about the authenticity of the sword, since a similar one was found on ebay (http://www.ebay.it/itm/PARTICOLARE-SCULTURA-COMMEMORATIVA-SPADA-BRONZEA-ROMANA-CON-IMPUGNATURA-STATUA-/301746768453) and some more are for sale in Walmart, Amazon, Wayfair, etc. Also, according to him, he didn’t find the sword on a shipwreck (which is supposed to be a Roman ship but where is the evidence of that?). If he is going to do this in the Scientific way, evidence, peer review is what talks not speculation.

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    Kevin O'Briant

    I’m more than a little bit disappointed to see this kind of pseudo-archaeology being posted on your site. As an archaeologist, I believe it’s imperative to call out this kind of unscientific, unconfirmed “research” which has neither been peer-reviewed nor examined by any professional archaeologists. Neither of the researchers cited in this article (and cited in other dubious internet content about this “find” has an archaeological background or training: one is a sensationalist “explorer” and the other is a professor of civil engineering. Neither is qualified to be doing this kind of work, which is probably why this bizarre, and no doubt highly unverifiable site is not being reported anywhere in the mainstream archaeological community (if such a thing as an ancient Roman North American site were real, believe me, we’d all be terribly excited about it).
    Unfortunately, this kind of pseudo-archaeology is part of a long tradition claiming that “just about everything artistically, linguistically, technologically, and architecturally important came to [American Indians] from elsewhere, brought by explorers, clerics, traders, and colonizers traveling to the Americas from every other settled continent, including at least one that sank.” It is also a fine example of “half a millennium of speculation geared toward inventing a deep Old World history in the Americas, thereby challenging the primacy of American Indians in the hemisphere, or at least implying their inferiority, their poor stewardship of the land, and the need to civilize them, all in the service of Manifest Destiny and justification for taking their land.” (Quoted from a published review of “The Lost Colonies of Ancient America: A Comprehensive Guide to the Pre-Columbian Visitors Who Really Discovered America”, American Antiquity, Vol. 80, No. 3, pp 624-625, by Larry L. Zimmerman, actual archaeologist, Purdue University Indianapolis.)
    In essence, these kinds of claims aren’t just profoundly unscientific and sensationalist, they are grounded in a deeply racist tradition. I’m extremely disappointed to see this published on your site.

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    Jim

    A near exact representation of the supposed Roman sword is widely available to be purchased on eBay…

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    SueW

    Yes, once I read that Hutton Pulitzer was behind this “SCAM” screamed out like a bull horn. Like getting an email from an African Prince asking me to hold $5 million.

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