The contact between Ancient Rome and America is a theme that cyclically reappears like bad weed, Egyptians light bulbs, Mayan spaceships and all that series of unlikely topics that capture the interest of the many who like fictional history, because they don't find true history exciting enough.

Although it is therefore something substantially more inherent to "alternative" theories rather than to a serious debate, on the other hand perhaps it is appropriate not to leave the field free only to imaginative and sensationalistic voices, and to offer the possibility of examine the question on realistic historical and archaeological data.

So let's get ready for a journey through Roman pineapples and Roman maize corn (SIC!) and much more, because unfortunately even pseudo-history, at times, risks having such a resonance that it cannot be abandoned at the mercy of those who, for incompetence or vice , spread it.

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DID THE ROMANS KNOW THE AMERICAS?
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00:00 - Introduction
02:33 - Roman presences in the Atlantic
05:08 - Pliny's cereal
07:09 - Sunflower or contamination?
10:16 - The "pineapples" in Roman art
14:24 - A joke got out of hand
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Cover: Detail of a mosaic from the National Roman Museum, I A.D.

Curated by Gioal Canestrelli
Institute of Experimental Archeology "Fianna ap Palug" of Verona

Editing by Angela Ruggero