@artemiscollective: A Roman-style artifact...found in a pre-Columbian Mexican tomb? 🤔 In 1933, archaeologists uncovered a small clay head at a burial site near Toluca dated to before Spanish contact. The object itself, however, resembles Roman imperial portraiture from the 2nd–3rd centuries AD and has been thermoluminescence-dated to the 9th century BCE-13th century CE. So how did it get there? Theories range from early transoceanic contact or shipwreck drift, to long-distance trade networks, to the most widely accepted explanation: a coincidental resemblance to Indigenous Mesoamerican artistry. Mainstream archaeology does not consider this evidence of Roman contact with the Americas, but the debate continues. #ancienthistory #ancientrome #History #HistoryTime #TikTokLearningCampaign

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chaz.reever
Chaz Reever :
Vikings brought it to America
2026-03-28 00:54:01
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𝒳𝒳𝒳ℐ_𝒱𝒾𝓁𝓁ℯ :
Columbus did NOT discover America
2026-03-29 06:09:48
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stoney837
No one :
Wouldn’t Roman clay have a unique chemical signature?
2026-03-28 05:15:25
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josepaniza
Jose Maria :
Maybe a shipwreck. But it is impossible that a Roman made contact and wasn't documented. Because that is why we know so much about the Romans, they made detailed documented records of everything.
2026-03-28 10:24:18
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larrysiemens
larrysiemens :
It could have been owned by a conquistador
2026-03-28 10:47:24
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thriceg33
Son of a Banker :
Carthage has a longer sailing lineage....
2026-03-28 08:58:02
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cldbrwszn
cldbrwszn :
The date range includes years where the Spanish were present…
2026-03-28 10:36:36
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arrnatelrunya333
ArrnaTelrunya333 :
There are reports of traveling to a distant land across the ocean in Greek lore. The current depicted according to history would’ve led it to Hudson Bay. They called it the place of the Giants.
2026-03-28 12:41:49
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stephen_miller93
Steppen :
I know it’s unlikely but that would be SO COOL
2026-03-27 23:47:08
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eirann_d_arc
EIRANN_D_ARC :
They went worldwide. In Hawaii,they mined obsidian.
2026-03-28 18:19:40
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peacisafiya
ServantusDei🇻🇦 :
That doesn’t even remotely look Roman
2026-03-28 13:10:13
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rayman9621
user4629620512399 :
Can’t they determine where it’s from based on the clay it’s made of? I think they could so…
2026-03-29 00:48:32
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sotajarocho
Gerardo Mexicano :
I mean the tomb’s dated window does include the landing of Columbus and Spanish colonization in the Caribbean. It is possible a Spanish adelantado was carrying it and lost it at sea and got carried to the shores, where it became a prized possession of a nahua noble. There’s stories of Spanish shipwrecks and even shipwreck survivors intermingling with Mayans before Cortez’s arrival in Mexico
2026-04-20 06:20:25
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quique9097
quique909 :
People already lived here. How do you discover something that has existed for thousands of years
2026-03-28 20:25:07
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bryansierra221
Bryan S :
@Bryan S: I’ve read that it’s a Phonecian sailor. He’s wearing a cap that phonecian sailors would’ve worn and it makes sense. The phonecians were going outside the pillars of Hercules into the Atlantic. If you take the currents across, he would end up in probably the Yucatán Peninsula.
2026-03-30 23:13:22
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redpascal1453
Red pascal :
Vikings
2026-03-29 22:22:01
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pac1965
pac19 :
My grandpa brought it there in 1956
2026-04-19 17:40:12
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worththerisk5
WorthTheRisk :
Definitely Roman
2026-03-28 09:41:08
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lectra68
🆘🇺🇲🆘-Resist :
Well the Vikings came here prior to Columbus, so who knows.
2026-03-29 02:25:33
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poppopchil
poppop :
I concur with your assumptions 🤘
2026-03-27 23:48:51
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memphiscarlos
DelaOchoa :
Did people discover the new world 30,000 years before the Romans? Yes.
2026-03-30 22:42:09
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mattastic_mb
Matt :
You would think they would try to use geologic fingerprinting to determine where the clay used originated from
2026-03-28 12:13:29
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inoeno448
Ino Eno448 :
Maybe it's Carthaginian?
2026-03-30 11:42:09
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markus_rufus
markus_rufus :
The Traveler? Monument 13😳
2026-03-29 02:09:40
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