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What do people make of this: A Punic (Carthaginian) coin from 341 BC, possibly showing American and Asia. The guy learnt ancient Phoenician :D

Interesting, as a similar question popped up on another forum I go on in the last few days, regarding 'best period' to live in. On reply was the Pax Romana, maybe a good time for many but being 'free' is another issue. Another was Renaissance Italy, same story. I would say you have a good...

I'm 27, I didn't go to university but I continued to study locally until I was 20 and then went to Japan to study for a while, I've been working for most of the last 5 years in CAD. Ideally I will be able to move around more in the next couple of years.

An amateur really, I flit from one thing to another, too many interests. I speak four or five languages ok and can stumble along in others, maybe when I am 40 I'll be better off.

I know very little native American although I did look at Sioux for a while because of its use of fixes and overall complexity. 'Maka Ina' is quite well known in Sioux as 'Mother Earth', 'Ina' being mother. Modern Mandarin has very Indo-European variations of 'mama' and 'papa' (ma/pa), and...

In the early 15th century, maybe before southern Europeans but well after the Vikings by hundreds of years. Of course, although I read the question as those coming across the Atlantic. Of course they would have, we are talking about recorded events. Although having said that I don't see the...

Yeah, history is quite a broad topic.

There is evidence for it too. If you look at it geographically it makes most sense. An interesting side story here: http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/115/2/ Some think there is treasure in a chamber underneath the complex wood structure, but it is impossible to reach even...

The Vikings reached the Americas first.