Quote Originally Posted by miotas View Post
Sorry but that's just bupkis. If it is possible to cross the pacific in a small raft(landed in my home town) then I don't think the Phoenicians would have had too much trouble surviving a trip across the Atlantic. I do think we would have heard more about it if it did happen though, but perhaps it was a closely guarded state secret that was lost when the Romans destroyed Carthage
They feared that the romans would be able to get the secret, that's why they destroyed the evidences. Think about it, replacing the USA with the UPRP, United Provinces of Roman Republic. All hail the fantasy genre.