James Martin: Uncharted, Voyages to the Americas Before Columbus

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

An exploration of the history, mythology, and evidence of those who traveled to pre-Columbian America.

Native groups have lived in the Americas for more than 10,000 years, but the voyages of Columbus surely did not bring the first visitors. Uncharted covers a range of cultures who seemingly visited the Americas long before Columbus, including Egyptians, Greeks, Celts, Vikings, as well as various people from Asia; and one large Chinese group who likely settled in the Americas in 100 BC. Wallace-Murphy and Martin delve into a wealth of evidence and stories, from potential Roman and Phoenician shipwrecks off the coast of South America to Celtic and Norse exploration of North America.

How did the Knights Templar influence the discovery of the New World? How did the Vikings navigate their way? What do the Sinclair family, the Rosslyn Chapel, and two Venetian brothers have to do with the discovery of a new continent? With source materials dating back through millennia, including very recent finds, this book will present a side of history still so readily dismissed by some.

Columbus should be remembered, but remembered for the conquering tyrant he was. These other groups did not come to conquer, but to trade, explore, and escape.

Tim Wallace-Murphy (1930–2019) studied medicine at University College, Dublin, and then qualified as a psychologist; he later became an author, lecturer, and historian. He has written more than a dozen books, including The Mark of the Beast (with Trevor Ravenscroft), Rex Deus, and Rosslyn: Guardian of the Secrets of the Holy Grail. This last book provided invaluable source material to Dan Brown for his bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code.

James Martin is a British historian, economist, and lecturer. James has previously worked in finance and employment law, and is presently a lecturer in further and higher education. He has dedicated a large portion of his more recent life to research into the Knights Templar, the Roman Empire, and the Western traditions of spirituality.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Earth Ancients, we look beyond Columbus to the earliest travelers by boat
0:08.3	to the Americas.
0:09.5	These are ancient people as far back now as 18,000 years has been documented.
0:16.6	People were traveling, trans-oceanic travelers to present-day North America, the United States,
0:25.6	Mexico, South America.
0:27.8	There is new evidence, great evidence for how they got there by what crafts and the migrations.
0:35.1	Today on Earth Ancients, we have a new author with a new book that verifies what a lot of us
0:41.9	have known for a long time, that Columbus was just one of perhaps thousands of travelers
0:49.4	to the new world.
0:52.1	All this and more today on Earth Ancients.
1:22.1	For Saturday, September 2nd, 2023, this is Earth Ancients.
1:35.9	I'm your host, Cliff Dunning.
1:57.4	It's a clear day on the ocean, you can see the seagulls and the swells coming and going.
2:09.8	When I was younger, I was a bartender on a ferry that took people from San Pedro
2:18.5	to the Carbure to the Catalina Islands in back in Los Angeles, California.
2:26.0	I found out that I was sensitive to rolling waves and I only could do it.
2:34.3	I did it while I was in college.
2:35.5	I only was able to bartend for, I think it was six months and I had to stop because I
2:41.1	just got seasick.
2:44.0	Can you imagine crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a wooden boat and not really knowing where
2:51.6	you're going but you had some accurate maps?
2:56.4	Columbus did this a number of times.
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