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What is antiora?
According to forensic geologist Scott Wolter, 'Antiora' is an ancient pre-Columbian name for North America, surfacing on a brass disc found inside a sealed clay tube — itself discovered inside a shattered garden ornament near Bannerman Island on the Hudson River. The provenance chain connecting this artifact to the broader 'Cremona Document' has not been independently verified outside Wolter's own presentations. It functions as load-bearing evidence in his Templar-contact thesis, and its linguistic origin and any independent textual corroboration remain unestablished.
Evidence
- Scott Wolter, forensic geologist and host of America Unearthed, claims the word 'Antiora' appeared on a brass disc recovered from a sealed clay tube — roughly four inches long — found inside a garden ornament on Bannerman Island, New York, following a 1958 munitions explosion that blew the ornament apart.
- Wolter dates the name 'Antiora' as predating European contact by approximately 2,000 years, positioning it as evidence of a Templar- and predecessor-linked transatlantic naming tradition.
- The Cremona Document itself, which Wolter describes as a Templar-era record of North American voyages, has drawn comparisons to other contested pre-Columbian contact artifacts such as the Kensington Runestone — another artifact Wolter has championed — and the Newport Tower.
- The tube also reportedly contained two parchments written in Theban script.
- Per analysis on The Ancient Question (August 2026), Wolter's collaborator followed this discovery to Rome, where the broader Cremona Document was allegedly purchased from an Italian family.