If one walks on the boulders near Boar's Head, one can easily Bowls of this shape and size were used in temple rituals in Israel prior to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD and because of purity laws had to be made of stone rather than pottery which was believed to harbor impurities and could not be used to hold sacred oils used in temple ceremonies. The owner and employees of this site are members of the LDS Church and in good standing. Our members inspire our own authenticity: the quest for transformation never ends. They found approximately 100,000 mound sites, many with complexes containing 2 to 100 mounds. regarded as genuine. Tobacco and cocaine were plants that only grew in the New World, at the time of mummification. National Dive Bar Day: Is There a Portal To Hell In Memphis? Heyerdahls success inspired similar expeditions between South America and Polynesia as well as another trip of his own from northern Africa to Barbados, to prove the ancient Egyptians might have had contact with pre-Columbian South American cultures. the inscriptions. See correlations between the Hebrew characters on the Decalogue stone, Monumental Hebrew found in Israel, and Roman characters with their Hebrew letter names in photo below. These have been met with skepticism, overwhelming bias and even contempt by archaeological and scientific communities. However, at the end of the 19th century, Eben Norton Horsford, Bond and his friend John Bartlett, another SPR member, devised a plan to attempt to make contact with long-dead abbey residents via automatic writing. Proceedings, 1980-1985. nothing tangible remains. Since the initial discovery, stone tools dating to the Clovis period have been uncovered in various other places . Mystery Stone: Was Columbus really the first? Theres just one problem: about 15,000 years ago, the massive, landscape-shaping Missoula Floods swept down the Columbia. All rights reserved. secured at the Peabody Museum. When Dr. Lillenthal saw it, he instantly decided the last three letters were nun, pe, lamed Dr. Bernard Illowy gives it as his judgement that the words are Yerachamehu Adonai Nephel, May the Lord have mercy on him, an untimely birth, or an abortion. This Land: by Wayne May America 2,000 B. C. to 500 A. D. (SourceThe Latter-day Saints Millennial Star, Volume 28). After his crucifixion, the gospels state that Christs body was entombed by his disciple Joseph of Arimathea. Use the same account and membership for TV, desktop, and all mobile devices. We know this by the scriptures (D&C 93:29) and yet the vast majority of these intellectuals dont believe in scripture either. Horsford started digging at the spot. His team takes archeological samples and can pinpoint their age making them the first to know about the new discovery. Im not a scientist but just an ordinary man who likes to have science and history just make sense. Your favorite shows, personalities and exclusive originals. Photo credit: . The first was a triangular shaped keystone (#2 in photo above) and the second was called the Decalogue stone (#1) encased in a sandstone sarcophagus (#3-4) and accompanied by a small stone bowl (#5) nearly the size and shape of Hebrew temple ritual bowls. One According to the legend of the tower, the The museum is located in the Dighton Rock State Park. Using the Making the stones even more important is that they are signed by Eleanor White Dare, the daughter of John White. among the Narragansetts and reported roughly the same. The evidence would seem to support Popular travel samples yielded a date of about 1680. Lane Memorial Library in Hampton maintains a nice collection of on-line resources Is there evidence linking Rhode Island to Vnland or another Norse colony? Is it the orvald's grave marker? Plus you can download videos to your device to watch offline later. thought to be visiting Vnland. famous traitor) until the discovery of the rune stone in 1946. Were The Great Pyramids Once Used to Transmit Energy? In the 1800's the Smithsonian sponsored many expeditions to identify mound sites across America. Sketches of the inscriptions The most intriguing part of the episode is watching Wolter notice every inconsistency with the stone. often used A for O during the development of the language, gan being the Old Norse found elsewhere must be fake, thus the historical community has concluded: Vnland sagas monuments at the Tuck Museum. Another interesting video about the stone by non-Mormons is HERE. sailing eastward along a north-facing coast. Brain matter was still preserved inside their skulls, and gut contents, along with numerous artifacts were found with the bodies. Many discoveries occur during construction excavation, road building, and recently, by drone photography that reveals soil and vegetation disruption over ancient sites. In June 2010 the stone underwent Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) examination by Forensic Geologist Scott Wolter of American Petrographic Services at the McClung Museum on the campus of the University of Tennessee. "What were doing is, were pushing back the boundaries, were defining basically the new knowledge of when humans came into North America," Forman said. research methods that had served him so well in his chemical researches. This [study] only reaffirms that, Nakia Williamson, the tribes director of cultural resources, tells Science. They hold that no written language was had by the aboriginal inhabitants of North America until after European exploration. [2] Eben Horton Horsford, The Landfall of Leif Erikson A.D. 1000 and the When construction began on a new subdivision in 1982, one of the workers stumbled upon a startling finda human skull. his life, Prof. Extensive farming of the area by the Ground stone tools were used for a variety of tasks, including chopping, grinding, and shaping wood. Still some tenaciously hold that at least there was a written language. A team of archeologists from the University of Memphis that was rapidly called to the site, confirmed that the ship is most certainly a Viking Knarr, suggesting the Norse would have pushed their exploration of America a lot further than historians previously thought. If their theories are borne out by the translation of the tablets engraved with hieroglyphics, the mystery of the prehistoric people of North America, their ancient arts, who they were and whence they came, will be solved. century, when Hampton was settled. Nothing has been found, which runic characters (left) as well as countless modern "runic" inscriptions (right). While this new evidence should certainly be exciting news for all LDS faithful, there are likely a few in the LDS scholarly community who will, like anti-Mormon critics, try to find some way to discredit or dismiss this evidence that so powerfully corroborates the claims of the Book of Mormon, because it does not support their preferred Mesoamerican geography paradigm. Newport, Rhode Island The Search for the Mountain Giant examined two very unique stone carvings in Appalachia The Judaculla Rock, and the Redbird River Petroglyphs. 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Behold The Light of the Goddesses: Ancient Egypt, The Ancient Matrix: Michael Tellinger on the Secrets of Lost Civilizations, These Hindu Texts Describe Flying Vimanas And Details Of An Ancient Nuclear War. The Enter your email address and we'll send you a link to reset your password. Recent scientific verifications of several sites and artifacts numbering eight as of this writing now establish that people with a knowledge of ancient Hebrew written language and culture were in America during Book of Mormon time frames! The idea was once controversial, but in recent years it's gained support. In 1989, it was moved to its present location at the Tuck I have a witness that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and I also know as Moroni promised that I. OSUs Davis first began excavating the site in the 1990s. Rafn believed that the inscription related to the voyage of orfinnur karlsefni These include the artifacts found at L'Anse aux Meadows (left) and the 11 th century Norwegian coin found in Maine in 1957 (right). While stemmed points are plentiful along the coast of Asia, there were very few found at the older sites in North America, and crucially, even fewer found along the coast. Hampton does not match very well with the description in the saga. Kinkaid were responsible for the groundbreaking discovery: Discoveries which almost conclusively prove that the race which inhabited this mysterious cavern, hewn in solid rock by human hands, was of oriental origin, possibly from Egypt, tracing back to Ramses. However, the written language of the Maya is neither Hebrew or Egyptian the only two languages mentioned in the text. During In addition to being some of the oldest yet found in the American West, the artifacts are rare traces of a culture that predated the culture known as Clovis, whose distinctively shaped stone tools found across North America have consistently been dated to about 13,000 years ago. People occupied the area for thousands of years. Ancient Hebrew Artifacts in the United States One of the oldest archaeological sites in the Americas has been discovered in western Idaho, according to a study published today in the . buried near the headland, which he wanted to be known as Krossanes. Scriptural Basis for Book of Mormon Geography The stones tell of the settlement facing disease, starvation, and attacks from native tribes, forcing the settlers to flee. the discovery of a series of mysterious caves and artifacts. Despite contrary belief, there is evidence which suggests Ancient Egyptians explored the planet like no one at the time: To the amazement of archeologists and researchers, in 1992, a German researcherwho was performing tests on Ancient Egyptian mummies found traces of hashish, tobacco, and cocaine in the hair skin and bones of Ancient Egyptian Mummies. Scientists have confirmed that some of the artifacts they've found in Bell County are the oldest ever discovered. Ancient Egyptian artifacts discovered in the Grand Canyon While this is a heavily criticized subject, there is evidence that suggests that in the 1900s, researchers belonging to the Smithsonian institute stumbled . Kelly Point, on the north side It wasnt until the 1960s that it became nationally recognized that a Norse explorer discovered the continent before these two Italian explorers. twenty items of colonial American origin were found, While scientific responses to pre-Colombian trans-oceanic contact vary over time, most ideas that support this possibility have been received with skepticism since such an idea radically opposes written history. Newfoundland, or possibly in Nova Scotia. The Windover Bog People episode examined an ancient burial site in eastern Florida. tower at Touro Park was thought to have been owned by Gov. Photos from Exploring the Book of Mormon in Americas Heartland, page 167, The Keystone inscription translates as The Holy of Holies, The Law of God, The King of the Earth, The Word of the Lord, The black Decalogue stone depicts a man in full length robes, a sash and Jewish temple ceremonial hat along with the name of Moses above the image. religious structure. of Cape Breton Island, is a headland between two fjords. Many people of the late 1700s believed that the evidence from the artifacts being dug from the ground supported an occupation of North America by one or more of the lost tribes of Israel. This, combined with the number of out of place artifacts that have ben found in the Americas beg to ask who truly discovered the Americas. The two concluded that no matter what the heritage of the Windover bodies are, history needs to reexamine if our oldest ancestors in the New World might actually be from Europe. territory of New England, we present here a summary of some of the more interesting ones, Wolter teamed up with anthropologist Janet Six who tested the spearhead and determined it was in fact from the Americas. What about those who say Adam was not the first man created on this earth? After examining the stones inscribed grooves and outer weathering rind using standard and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and researching the historical documentation, the team of Scott Wolter and Richard Stehly of American Petrographic Services conclude that the inscription is consistent with many hundreds of years of weathering in a wet earth mound comprised of soil and hard red clay and that the stonecan be no younger than when the bodies of the deceased were buried inside the mound. This was an undisputed Hopewell burial mound, and therefore the Hebrew inscribed artifact falls within the time frames of the Book of Mormon in the heartland of America. This absurd story was less than convincing to Marx, while the governments response added to his skepticism. expedition to Vnland. evidence. published Thursday in the journal Science, brought the technology to make Clovis-type blades and spear points with them. While there, he and his men battled Why has information of this magnitude not been featured on the front page headlines of LDS related new articles, magazines and websites? Giovanni da Verrazano mapped Heyerdahl believed that pre-Columbian South Americans sailed and populated Polynesia, particularly Easter Island. This is why it isnt that difficult to believe that there are Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in Australia and that people of ancient India knew of modern-day England and called it the Island of the White Cliffs. field stone) closely resemble those of other 17th century structures in Rhode That seems way to easy to just out of hand condemn any evidence. "There's something out there - that's better than our airplane." UFOs visit California and Florida more than any other state according to the UFO Reporting Center. Souvenir hunters chipped away at the stone We use cookies and similar technologies to run this website and help us make recommendations for you. Artifacts Found in North America Suggest Humans Came By Sea Dating back to 16,000 years, items from a dig site in Idaho point to the first settlers arriving by a Pacific coastal route rather than by an ice-free land bridge from Siberia. Newspaper accounts, town and county histories, letters, scientific journals, diaries, photos, and Smithsonian ethnology reports have carefully documented this. The inscribed stone was found in an undisturbed Hopewell burial mound along the Little Tennessee River near the mouth of Bat Creek. Additional Hopewell diagnostic artifacts recovered with the stone include bone and wood pieces and two brass bracelets whose metallurgical properties nearly match those of ancient Jews in the Levant (Israel) portions of the Mediterranean (see video of Dr. Wolters presentation and analysis HERE. The rock is a sandstone bolder, a block Using characters that are not apparent in the original sketch, Rafn The report claimed that two Smithsonian-funded researchers Prof. S. A. Jordan and G.E. There has never been found any evidence for ancient Hebrew or Egyptian written language in Mesoamerica or South America and this archaeologically well established fact has been used to dismiss and reject the Book of Mormon. The Stones were believed to be a fraud for decades, created by someone desperate for money during the Great Depression. Nephite Timeline Florida to Cumorah. Horsford 1986, p. 33). Over 1000 accounts of seven-foot and taller skeletons have reportedly been unearthed from ancient burial sites over a two-hundred-year period in North America. violinist and nationalist who made regular visits to America. Newly Identified Neural Signature of Drug Craving Could Predict Drug Use, Study of Millions Finds Genetic Links to Smoking and Drinking. I dont know the unknown either, but I study and pray about all things and it has to make sense as well. Evidence from the site of the tower points to a colonial time frame. It is expected that rather than seeing the plausibility of the Book of Mormon occurring in Americas heartland, and being excited about having new evidence supporting it, those entrenched in their Mesoamerican theories will try to discredit the only known archaeological finding verified through scientific rigor to confirm the existence of ancient Hebrew written language in the Americas during Book of Mormon time frames. Indians. the tower appears on two maps In a Hopewell burial mound in Ohio in 1860. Unsurprisingly, these too have experienced dismissal and cover-up. In contrast to the lack of evidence for Hebrew or Egyptian language in Mesoamerica, many artifacts have been found in North America bearing Hebrew and other Old World inscriptions. Over "One of the exciting things about being a scientist, you get to do things that no one else is doing and youre the first ones, basically doing it," said Forman. 8 Locations in North America Having Evidence of Hebrews. Over the years, there has been at least one attempt to dig for orvald's Many, if not hundreds of stones inscribed with ancient characters and symbols have been summarily dismissed as fakes and forgeries because it was against the official policy of the scientific community under the Smithsonian Institution, and because linguistic evidence cannot be supported by one or two random artifacts. The artifacts have been dated to as far back as 16,500 years ago, making them the oldest radiocarbon dated evidence of humans in North America, according to research published Thursday in the journal Science. end of what is now Thorwald Avenue. marshy area that exists today just inland from the beach does not However, the evidence is more speculation and hearsay than hard fact. There is an ongoing hope that those in the Mesoamerican leaning LDS scholarly community may determine to subjectively reexamine the possibilities and join with us in helping to show forth the evidence for the Book of Mormon where Joseph Smith indicated by his words, writings and actions for it to have been in the Heartland of North America. The true shock came during Wolters investigation. placed the stone tablet (left) which, to this day, marks the location of Leif's house. home. See more ideas about artifacts, native american artifacts, indian artifacts. The radiocarbon dates may not be linked to human occupation and the analysis of the site requires more work to determine when people lived there, archeologist Ben Potter of the University of Alaska Fairbanks who was not involved with the study tells Nature. The inscribed writing has been determined to be an ancient script now called Block Hebrew, or Monumental Hebrew because of its being found in Jerusalem near the 4th century, A.D. (Biblical Archaeology Review Nov./Dec. recessed areas ideal for the placement of holy figures or other items. While most academic archaeologists dismiss psychic research methods for locating ancient objects and sites, others use them with great success, pinpointing exact locations for excavation. Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images). So just how did these exotic narcotics arrive in ancient Egypt before the New World was found? It was made by digging out the inside of a log with an ax, according to the . To While some come from England, others are old Indian names for All rights reserved. Every decision we make is inspired by our vision to empower a community of individuals to come together to build a more conscious world. For example, something cannot be created out of nothing. Dighton Rock has rested in the mud of the Taunton River in Does this discovery prove ancient Egyptians traveled to the Americas Mustatils in Saudi Arabia: Gates for Animal Sacrifice to Unknown Gods? Cambridge Historical Society, 1998. Ancient human artifacts found in a remote corner of Northwestern Idaho could deliver a major blow to a long-held theory that North Americas first humans arrived by crossing a land bridge connected to Asia before moving south through the center of the continent. similar round objects. While the site has a significant place in church history, it is also connected to Arthurian legends and is said to be the site of King Arthur and Queen Guineveres tombs. artifact that appeared to come from the ancient Roman Empire. It was mistakenly thought that the only literate culture in the Americas were the Maya of Mesoamerica, but scholars know that the Mayan glyph system originated from Asiatic writing systems, which have nothing to do with either of the languages specified by the Book of Mormon thus eliminating any linguistic connection between the Maya and the Nephites. Grnlendinga saga (chapter 4) says that orvaldr Eirksson led an I think we can safely reject Therefore the stones believe that the five runic markers read 'HNKRS' representing the old Norse word for stool, It's a new step in the difficult and contentious process of establishing when people arrived in North America from Asia. the Boar's Head promontory (left) at the northern end of Hampton Beach is Krossanes, and that the stone on display at the Since no new Scientific Law has been discovered and proven in over 100 years, the scientists are now propping up their new theories as if they are true. Unlikely. For over 4 seasons, Scott Wolter has uncovered and discovered some of the world's most fascinating artifacts.

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