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Nicotine is abundant in tobacco plants but it is also present in small quantities in several Old World plants. Nicotine and its metabolites have also been identified in human remains and in pipes from the Near East and Africa. However the only direct evidence of habitual tobacco use in the Ancient world has been found in the Americas. One species of tobacco, Nicotiana africana, has recently been identified as indigenous to Namibia in South West Africa. Some species of tobacco may have grown in Egypt, or in the surrounding regions, and that this could account for the high amounts of nicotine identified in the Egyptian mummies. |
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Unexpected Faces in Ancient America: The Historical Testimony of Pre-Columbian Artists (1500 B.C.-a.D. 1500 : the Historical Testimony of Pre-Columbian Artists)
Pre-Columbian Contact With the Americas Across the Oceans : An Annotated Bibliography Acajutla Statues In 1914, an archaeologist was excavating some Mayan ruins in the
city of Acajutla, El Salvador [Not Mexico as some accounts indicate]
and discovered two statuettes [shawabti-figurines] that
were probably Egyptian. A man and woman wearing ancient Egyptian
dress and cartouches, possibly depicting Osiis and Isis.
New and Old Light on Shawabtis from Mesoamerica Some scholars have theorized and attempted to prove that there are strong similarities between ancient Egypt's languages and Native Americans of the Louisiana area . Barry Fell, has stated that the language of several Indigenous Amerindian tribes have affinities with Nile Valley languages of 2,000 years ago.
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Ancient Hebrews in America The Yuchis, an Amerindian tribe once native to Florida and Georgia , but presently of Oklahoma have a Legend which states they came from the Bahamas region , their island sank beneath the sea and they fled to the mainland. They are racially and linguistically different from their neighbors. Every year on the fifteenth day of the sacred month of harvest, in the fall, they make a pilgrimage. For eight days they live in huts/ booths with no roofs, open to the sky, covered with branches, leaves and foliage. During this festival, they dance around the sacred fire, and call upon the name of God. The Jews have a very similar custom. In the harvest season in the fall, on the 15th day of the sacred month of harvest (the seventh month), they celebrate the "Sukkot: The Festival of Booths" . This festival dates back to the time of Moses and the Exodus from Egypt . Dr. Cyrus Gordon, observed one of the Yuchi fall harvest festivals, listening to their sacred ceremonies and songs, he proclaimed to his companion, "They are speaking the Hebrew names for God!" . Apparently there is a connection between the Yuchi and ancient Hebrews , perhaps they a descended of seafaring Hebrews from the time of King Solomon, who hypothetically , along with their Phoenician partners came to America "The land of Ophir" in search of Gold and trade goods. Anomalous Old World Artifacts found in America The Savoy Tablets American explorer Gene Savoy claims to have found evidence in the Peruvian jungles which he believes indicates king Solomon's legendary gold mines may have been there. Savoy, states that he had found three stone tablets containing writing from ancient civilizations of the Andes. The inscriptions, he believes, are very similar to Hebrew and Phoenician hieroglyphics!
Vilcabamba: last city of the Incas
Los Lunas Decalogue Early settlers in the Los Lunas region of New
Mexico, discovered a stone in a dry creek bed written in ancient
Hebrew script. The Los Lunas Inscription is a version of the Ten
Commandments, carved on the flat face of a boulder about 35
miles south of Albuquerque. It is written in an Old Hebrew alphabet,
with Greek letters mixed in. It has been called Ten
Commandments Rock, The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone, as well as the
Mystery Stone. Varying translations and interpretations of the Mystery Stone
have been proposed . The most common is that it is an ancient
version of the Ten Commandments.
The Rock That Gives Every Word Wished Some claim that there is the possibility that it is a prank perpetrated by college students in the 1930s. The actual date of the inscriptions initial discovery is uncertain, but it was known by the locals circa 1850. The version of Hebrew script on the text was unknown in the 1850s
and therefore undecipherable. This particular version of Hebrew script was
discovered in the Middle East in the latter 1800s. Once this ancient
version was discovered and compared the Los Lunas inscription it was
found to be a copy of the "Ten Commandments". The Ohio Decalogue Allegedly an ancient Hebrew artifact of pre-Columbian America, it
was found in Newark, Ohio in 1860 . It was initially rejected as
a fraud, by 'experts' wholly unschooled
in old world cultures. a huge mound of rocks 500 feet in
circumference been leveled for dam building
material In 1860. This pile of rocks was a huge
grave marker from antiquity, which were actually quite common in
America. In the grave were found some artifacts, one small stone artifact within its
own stone coffin had the Ten Commandments carved in so called
"modern Hebrew," a style in use for more that two thousand years.
The Bat Creek Stone Excavated in 1889 from a burial mound in Eastern Tennessee, on the shore of Lake Telico at the mouth of Bat Creek about 40 miles south of Knoxville by the Smithsonian's Mound Survey project.. The The stone was initially declared to be letters of the Cherokee alphabet. However in the 1960s it was noticed that the inscription, when inverted appeared to be of ancient Semitic origin. Cyrus Gordon, Semitic languages scholar, confirmed that it is Paleo-Hebrew of approximately the 1st or 2nd century A.D. The five letters to the left reading, "for Judea." It was later noted that the letter on the far left would change the translation to "for the Judeans."Alternative translations from fellow scholars render the translation as "only for Judea' and varying facsimiles. Cherokee linguistic scholar Willard Walker stated that the Bat Creek Stone represents a series of poorly executed Cherokee syllables which represents a simile of "Metacomet, Great Sachem"
Phoenicians in Ancient America The Parahyba inscription
Distinguished linguist examines controversial inscription supposedly written by ancient voyagers to the New World. Metcalf Stone In the late 1960s a man named Manfred Metcalf found a stone in Georgia that bears an inscription that is very similar to ancient writing from the island of Crete in The Aegean Sea. The stone eventually found itself in the capable hands of Cyrus Gordon who stated "After studying the inscription, it was apparent to me that the affinities of the script were with the Aegean syllabary, whose two best known forms are Minoan Linear A, and Mycenaean Linear B. ...We therefore have American inscriptional contacts with the Aegean of the Bronze Age, near the south, west and north shores of the Gulf of Mexico. This can hardly be accidental; ancient Aegean writing near three different sectors of the Gulf reflects Bronze Age transatlantic communication between the Mediterranean and the New World around the middle of the second millennium B.C." Fort Benning, Georgia, Professor Stanislav Segert, professor of Semitic languages at the University of Prague, has identified the markings as a script of the second millennium before Christ, from the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete!
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