The Bimini Road to America
After studying ancient Roman manuscripts, researchers have decided to investigate repeated references to VIAE BIMINAE, or The Roads to the Biminis, a Spanish word from antiquity meaning “Eastern Land”. Surprisingly, the search for the road was very brief. The most logical place to start a search for an ancient bridge from Europe to the New World is the Iberian Peninsula. Brent Braanson of the University Afrikaans of South Africa assembled a team of researchers in Porto, Portugal and began digging. What they found has already gone down in history.
Ancient Roman Map of the Atlantic
They didn’t just find a road; they found foundations of pylons which appear almost modern. This discovery has turned both history and science in their heads. These pylons, which stretch clear across the Atlantic Ocean, once held up a great bridge, the Via Bimina, from Portugal to South Carolina. That’s right. The Romans were in America at least 1,000 years before Leif Ericson and nearly 1,300 years before Columbus.
The Bimini Ruins
The pylons lead to empty land about 30 miles south of Charleston, SC. An excavation there has already uncovered Earth-shaking findings: mugs, skeletons, boat spines and even etchings created by Roman artists over 1,500 years ago. These etchings depict generally peaceful relations with the Native Americans.
What exactly happened to the Roman explorers is currently unknown. Their settlements have vanished, short of the artifacts left underground. It is currently thought that the bridge was destroyed, probably by hurricanes, shortly after it was completed, and only a few Romans made it to the New World and back to tell the story.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this discovery was a completely different one. During initial dives studying the pylon foundations, scientists discovered foundations consistent with most Roman aqueducts. According to the journal, History, “it has been unequivocally shown that early Roman engineers did build an aqueduct to carry fresh water from North America to Europe. We knew their water was contaminated and we had no idea how they sustained the greatest civilization this world has known,” according to the renowned anthropologist, Gerard McManus.
McManus went on, “today our understanding of the ancients has been, for all intents and purposes, turned upside-down. They knew more than we give them credit for. A new epoch of history has just been discovered and we all need to question our own societal structures; our past isn’t what we think it was. Columbus is a lie.”
That opinion is not that of bearscare.org, though it is very interesting.
