Roman artefact may change what we know about who really discovered the Americas

Could this artefact change what we know about the discovery of the Americas? (Picture: Romeo Hristov/University of New Mexico)

Over the centuries it’s always been recognised that Christopher Columbus was the man who discovered the New World, back in 1492.

However, a discovery in the Americas, dating back decades but recently brought back into focus, has sparked debate as to whether the Romans had actually landed there a thousand years earlier.

An 1,800-year-old artefact, known as the Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca Head...