Hundreds to thousands of years ago, Old World visitors appeared in the Americas, leaving behind their indelible marks on our land and our history.
Before Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in 1492, as many history books teach, there is evidence of numerous pre-Columbian visitors repeatedly landing on our shores with their own agendas. Evidence of these “lost colonists” is the subject of Editor-in-Chief of “Ancient American” magazine, Frank Joseph’s, latest book, “The Lost Colonies of Ancient America: A Comprehensive Guide to the Pre-Columbian Visitors Who Really Discovered America.” In his book, Joseph describes the various peoples who influenced pre-Columbian history and offers new evidence regarding their impact on the continent and on our country.
Joseph, a long-time expert in the field of prehistory and author of more than two dozen books, provides convincing documentation that Old World visitors appeared in the Americas hundreds to thousands of years ago, well ahead of Columbus. Among those visiting the Americas were the Sumerians, Minoans, Romans, Celts, ancient Hebrews, Indonesians, Africans, Chinese, Japanese, Welsh, Irish, and even the Knights Templar. And all of these visitors left their marks on our land and our history.
What was the purpose of their visitations and how did they get here? According to Joseph, many of these visitors sought to claim American resources such as high-grade copper, precious gems, agricultural products, and other “native riches” as their own, protecting them from others who would also seek to claim them. And they arrived by boat, long before Columbus set sail.
So why aren’t these events generally known? Joseph says one reason is academia and its “party line” in regards to history, which is reflected in our history books. “These grand events are generally unknown because humanity’s last 25 generations have been schooled to believe that Christopher Columbus was the first and only discoverer of the New World. For them, American history began in 1492, and nothing of equivalent significance took place here before then.”
It’s been generally accepted that the first “wide-spread habitation of America occurred during the end of the last glacial period or, more specifically, what is known as the late glacial maximum, around 16,500-13,000 years ago.” Joseph points out, however, that even when presented with possible evidence to the contrary, many archaeologists and historians will not “deviate from an academic party line” because they are concerned for their professional careers.
One such example Joseph gives is “when the director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M University was presented with credible materials for a quarter-million-year-old or older man-made habitation site outside Mexico City… (he) declared, ‘I don’t care what the evidence is, I can’t believe the old dates, because they refute everything that’s known about archaeology and anthropology. I could never bring myself to believe these old dates.’”
Tragically, because of this type of mindset, Joseph points out that we may never fully understand our true history or our connections to the rest of the world completely. But there’s also another reason why we may remain in the dark about our “ancient” history according to Joseph.
Joseph states that “such ignorance is understandable” in light of the agendas these ancient Old World colonizers arrived with upon our shores. Because they sought to protect their claims and “monopolize American resources,” they guarded against one another’s finding out about their “secrets” just as today’s modern corporations “guard against one another’s industrial espionage.” He points out that “navigational directions were state secrets, and rumors of boiling seas filled with monsters or sailing off the edge of the Earth were deliberately spread to discourage competition. Transatlantic voyages were covert operations undertaken only by the most capable maritime kingdoms, each jealous of the others’ success.”
Even if these voyages were “covert,” as Joseph suggests, is there other evidence that suggests these ancient explorers came to our shores? Yes and no, says Joseph, who claims there is a “cultural amnesia” that occurred with the “catastrophic close of the Bronze Age, around 1200 BC, when its thorough and widespread collapse ushered in a dark age that virtually wiped clean all memory of contact with the Americas.” The result of this “amnesia” was that basically two thousand years of transoceanic history and accomplishments were “reduced to legends, until first the Phoenicians, followed by Latin and then Celtic, sailors found some old sea-lanes back to the Opposite Continent.” Unfortunately, however, with the Fifth Century fall of the Roman Empire, Joseph says that “another, deeper dark age ensued to yet again cast its shadow over all previous knowledge of the New World,” except, of course, for the Vikings, who were an exception. But even their voyages were also diminished to “sagas, the stuff of which myth was made.”
Despite the cultural amnesia, Joseph says there is physical evidence that persists even today. Some of the more interesting examples include an Egyptian temple accidentally unearthed by Tennessee Valley Authority workers in 1935, a “beautifully crafted metal plate with the image of a Phoenician woman” excavated in the Utah desert, the discovery of Viking houses and wharves outside of Boston, and a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Ohio with links to Egypt’s Great Pyramid.
According to Joseph, these enigmas are but a small portion of the abundant proof that exists for Old World visitors coming to our shores hundreds to thousands of years ago.
As David Goudsward, author of “Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration” suggests, perhaps it’s time to quit asking the question about who discovered America and begin asking “Who didn’t discover America?” And that’s where Frank Joseph’s research begins.
Frank Joseph joins Barb Adams live on Amerika Now this Saturday, November 16, from 9 to 10 p.m. Pacific, midnight to 1 a.m. Eastern, to discuss “The Lost Colonies of Ancient America.”
Link to article on GCN’s website: http://www.gcnlive.com/CMS/index.php/component/k2/item/249-the-lost-colonies-of-ancient-america
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