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Ancient America Revealed
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………………….Ancient America treasures revealed ……………. By Lewis Brackett………………….
Amphorae in Roman shipwrecks were found in Mexico 1723…... Roman coins repeatedly wash ashore in Beverly Massachusetts and were plowed up by early colonists….. Pagan temples to the Celtic gods in New England…… Egyptian writing used by the eastern Canadian Indians…. Mississippian and Mayan civilizations eerily mirror their cousins in the old world….
Up until the turn of the 20 century many scholars and ordinary Americans for that matter accepted that the Americas were visited by the Mediterranean peoples hundreds or even thousands of years before Columbus. After all, inscriptions, coins, all manner of evidences abounded…. Even some of the “”native”” tribes had legends that they originated from across the great ocean…..
The current crop
of “experts” ridicule such finds nowadays…… if you dig up coins, they say some other collector lost them. Phoenician inscriptions are merely someone's graffiti….. Punic temples merely something some settlers built.. Of course they conviently omit to mention that the stone blocks often weigh many tons !!! …..
The “experts ask “where is the pottery” they use to misdate other cultures. The answer is simple really. In North America, the ancient mariners were traders much more than settlers. They shared the trinkets and knowledge with these ancient Americans. .What few trinkets traded were broken, lost in Americas vastness, Only very occasionally to be found and then dismissed by self appointed experts. Some small groups were shipwrecked or were assimilated into the native peoples….Unlike after the late European discovery, there simply weren’t large surplus populations wanting to leave their native shores and settle in new lands across the vast sea. After a while, cities like Carthage ( near Tunis, North Africa ) discouraged migration as it tended to empty the city of useful workers and soldiers—and then there were those pesky Romans to consider….oppose, contend with… and go to war with…...
One of the most interesting things is that the ancient word “Phoenician” means a person who is Red Skinned and loved to adorn everything with beads and feathers—– just like today’s “Indians” !!!
So, what is the evidence that the ancients made long voyages to very far off lands? Really quite a lot.
Way back in the 12th Dynasty, Pharaoh Senusret III (18th century BC) dug a “Suez Canal”, joining the Nile river with the Red Sea, allowing ships to sail between the the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.
Lebanon's Phoenicians and Hebrews (Judges 5:17) sailed through this canal, around Saudi Arabia, to India and China. They also sailed far down the African coast. In about 600 BC Admiral Necho circumnavigated Africa. It is also in the historical record that the ruler Hanno of Carthage 425BC sponsored voyages down the west coast of Africa to today's Congo.
Apparently early voyagers attempting to find the Canary islands off western Africa got blown off course by a hurricane and ended up in Brazil / West Indies at a very early date—and the rest is, as they say, history. Sailors from one of Hanno’s ships even left an inscription in my home town on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, mentioning this Hanno. Carthaginian coins even show the coast of Brazil in their inscriptions. Some of the Mediterranean vessels were huge — one writer mentions a voyage he took from Greece to Egypt on vessel with over a thousand passengers…….. So yes, they had the ships and sailors…… Centuries later Caesar mentions in his commentaries that he destroyed a fleet of very large ocean going ships in his conquest of France…..
On the other side of the world, China was building very large warships. Ships several hundred feet long were used in river and coastal warfare in the early dynasties. By the 1400’s China sent great fleets abroad to circumnavigate the world. Their largest ships were not matched until late in the 19th century. Certainly the Chinese explored our west coast and some stories have explorers visiting our Southwestern interior. Then at the conclusion of their world voyage, the dynasty fell…. China left her great ships to rot, turned inward, never to sail again. Had she done so, the history of civilization would have been far different.
The mound Builders civilization in the Mississippi valley have revealed many astonishing discoveries only to have experts swoop in, collect what was found and the artifacts are never seen again. Ancient American magazine is a
………………….Ancient America treasures revealed ……………. By Lewis Brackett………………….
Amphorae in Roman shipwrecks were found in Mexico 1723…... Roman coins repeatedly wash ashore in Beverly Massachusetts and were plowed up by early colonists….. Pagan temples to the Celtic gods in New England…… Egyptian writing used by the eastern Canadian Indians…. Mississippian and Mayan civilizations eerily mirror their cousins in the old world….
Up until the turn of the 20 century many scholars and ordinary Americans for that matter accepted that the Americas were visited by the Mediterranean peoples hundreds or even thousands of years before Columbus. After all, inscriptions, coins, all manner of evidences abounded…. Even some of the “”native”” tribes had legends that they originated from across the great ocean…..
The current crop
of “experts” ridicule such finds nowadays…… if you dig up coins, they say some other collector lost them. Phoenician inscriptions are merely someone's graffiti….. Punic temples merely something some settlers built.. Of course they conviently omit to mention that the stone blocks often weigh many tons !!! ….. The “experts ask “where is the pottery” they use to misdate other cultures. The answer is simple really. In North America, the ancient mariners were traders much more than settlers. They shared the trinkets and knowledge with these ancient Americans. .What few trinkets traded were broken, lost in Americas vastness, Only very occasionally to be found and then dismissed by self appointed experts. Some small groups were shipwrecked or were assimilated into the native peoples….Unlike after the late European discovery, there simply weren’t large surplus populations wanting to leave their native shores and settle in new lands across the vast sea. After a while, cities like Carthage ( near Tunis, North Africa ) discouraged migration as it tended to empty the city of useful workers and soldiers—and then there were those pesky Romans to consider….oppose, contend with… and go to war with…...
One of the most interesting things is that the ancient word “Phoenician” means a person who is Red Skinned and loved to adorn everything with beads and feathers—– just like today’s “Indians” !!!
So, what is the evidence that the ancients made long voyages to very far off lands? Really quite a lot.
Way back in the 12th Dynasty, Pharaoh Senusret III (18th century BC) dug a “Suez Canal”, joining the Nile river with the Red Sea, allowing ships to sail between the the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.
Lebanon's Phoenicians and Hebrews (Judges 5:17) sailed through this canal, around Saudi Arabia, to India and China. They also sailed far down the African coast. In about 600 BC Admiral Necho circumnavigated Africa. It is also in the historical record that the ruler Hanno of Carthage 425BC sponsored voyages down the west coast of Africa to today's Congo.
Apparently early voyagers attempting to find the Canary islands off western Africa got blown off course by a hurricane and ended up in Brazil / West Indies at a very early date—and the rest is, as they say, history. Sailors from one of Hanno’s ships even left an inscription in my home town on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, mentioning this Hanno. Carthaginian coins even show the coast of Brazil in their inscriptions. Some of the Mediterranean vessels were huge — one writer mentions a voyage he took from Greece to Egypt on vessel with over a thousand passengers…….. So yes, they had the ships and sailors…… Centuries later Caesar mentions in his commentaries that he destroyed a fleet of very large ocean going ships in his conquest of France…..
On the other side of the world, China was building very large warships. Ships several hundred feet long were used in river and coastal warfare in the early dynasties. By the 1400’s China sent great fleets abroad to circumnavigate the world. Their largest ships were not matched until late in the 19th century. Certainly the Chinese explored our west coast and some stories have explorers visiting our Southwestern interior. Then at the conclusion of their world voyage, the dynasty fell…. China left her great ships to rot, turned inward, never to sail again. Had she done so, the history of civilization would have been far different.
The mound Builders civilization in the Mississippi valley have revealed many astonishing discoveries only to have experts swoop in, collect what was found and the artifacts are never seen again. Ancient American magazine is a
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