Ancient Contacts in the Americas

The Maya had memories of several white gods, or culture heroes. The first being
Itzamna who came across the ocean from the east. He was a teacher. Later twenty
men arrived, the chief of whom was called Colcolcan. They all wore flowing robes
and sandal shoes. Each had a long beard and their heads were bare. Kulkulcan, as
he was also known, instructed the people in the arts.

A tribe immediately to the west of the Maya were visited by another white man,
called Votan and he taught the people how to cultivate maize and cotton and
invented hieroglyphic signs. It is likely that the great white culture-hero of the
Mexicans, Quetzalcoatl -- the feathered serpent -- could have been Greek or
Sumerian rather than a Master from the stars.

Stone and rock carvings plus examples of pottery all point to the inescapable fact
that the ancient inhabitants of the Americas were acquainted with almost every
race in the world prior to 300 BC. Evidence from North, Central and South America
of Old World inscriptions, common words and customs, architectural styles and
artifacts link the two. A hoard of Roman coins has been discovered in Venezuela,
and a Roman pottery head was found in Mexico, and dated for stylistic reasons to
the second century A.D. In Maine a Roman coin has recently surfaced, while a
botanist claims to have identified two of the plants depicted on a Roman fresco in
Pompeii as an American fruit, the pineapple, and an American vegetable, a species
of squash.

From the depths of the Well of Sacrifice at Chichen Itza, scuba divers have
recovered a wood and wax doll, bearing the Roman script. Elsewhere a stone
sarcophagus was unearthed at Palenque by excavators who liken it in the style of
the Phoenicians.

In 1966, a certain Manfred Metcalf claims to have picked up an inscribed stone in

Georgia, now known as the Metcalf Stone. It bears text very similar in nature to
Cretan Linear A and B writing and is regarded by Cyrus Gordon in Manuscripts,
1969, Vol. XXI, No. 3, as probably an inventory.

A coin found in 1957 by a small boy in a field near Phenix City, Alabama, was
identified later as coming from Syracuse, on the island of Sicily, and dating from
490 B.C. In 1976 an ancient coin was found in the town of Heavener, Oklahoma. It
was identified later as being a bronze tetradrachm, originally with a silver wash,
now missing. It was struck in Antioch, Syria, 63 A.D., and acccording to Dr. Barry
Fell, "The profile is of Nero, with the Greek inscription on the obverse saying
'Nero Caesar Augustus'."

In 1936, Dr Charles Elvers excavated a stone pendant or amulet in Gallo Canyon,

New Mexico. It was pear-shaped, about three inches long with a hole at the top. On
one side is the crowned figure of a man holding a crooked or serpent-like staff in
his right hand, and seemingly climbing a slope while looking over his right
shoulder. On the other side of the pendant is an inscription composed of an
elephant head, a triangle, cross and circle, plus two six-pointed stars. These
symbols or glyphs were commonly used in the archaic Sumerian linear scripts.

As if to confirm its authenticity, there is a stela preserved in the Louvre,

Paris, commemorating a conquest of the near-east ruler Naram-Sin. The stone
carving depicts him standing on a mountain slope, holding a staff in his right
hand while wearing a headdress and looking to his right.

Early this century, a Brazilian rubber-tapper called Bernardo da Silva Ramos was
working in the Amazon jungle when he noted that on many of the rocks there could
be found ancient scripts carved deep into the stone. Intrigued, he spent the later
part of his life copying and recording these inscriptions. He found that the
greater part of them resembled, often in detail, the ancient writings of the Old
World and compiled a catalog of nearly 2000 such scripts.

An inscription found near Rio and located three thousand feet up on a vertical
wall of rock contains the following words: 'Tyre, Phoenicia, Badezir, Firstborn of
Jethbaal ..... '. It has been dated to the middle of the ninth century B.C.

Other jungle graffiti has indeed been linked to that already recorded as belonging
to the Semitic, Indus, Phoenician, Punic, Brahmi and other peoples. The Parahyba
inscription, also discovered in Brazil, was later translated from the Phoenician
over 25 years ago and here is what this remarkable record has to say:

We are sons of Canaan from Sidon, the city of the king. Commerce has cast us on
this distant shore, a land of mountains. We set [sacrificed] a youth for the
exalted gods and goddesses in the nineteenth year of Hiram, our mighty king. We
embarked from Ezion-Geber into the Red Sea and voyaged with ten ships. We were at
sea together for two years around the land belonging to Ham [Africa] but were
separated by a storm [lit. 'from the hand of Baal'], and we were no longer with
our companions. So we have come here, twelve men and three women, on a ..... shore
which I, the Admiral, control. But auspiciously may the gods and goddesses favor
us!

Further evidence in South America suggests strongly that a Sumerian colony

established itself around Titicaca, in what is now known as Bolivia, perhaps as
long ago as 4000 years. According to legend the first Inca, Manko-Kapak, appeared
in Lake Titicaca and tradition held that the Incas were red or brown-haired. A
characteristic alien to American Indians but many mummies discovered there confirm
this fact.

Huge blocks of stone found at Tiahuanaco were once held together by copper and
even gold rivets. This was a method of building-construction almost identical to
that used in Assyria and Eritrea thousands of years ago. The colony even used
solid stone wheels, just like the ones in use by the Sumerians themselves, and
were thought to have transported the huge stone blocks in this manner.

The tribe living around Lake Titicaca are called the Uru and elders retain
memories of people of their tribe being sacrified under the foundations when
Tiahuanaco was built. The name immediately suggests Ut, which again is linked to
the Sumerian civilization.

The Incas carried out mummification and, like the Sumerians, placed a metal disc
in the mouth of a corpse. They also built pyramids and obelisks, while using cups,
plates, spoons and goblets much like those in the Old World. Likewise, both the
Sumerians and the Incas held the rainbow as sacred and each carried their notables
around in litters. While at a temple in Chavin, Peru, an ingenious system of air
conduits still carries fresh air to every room in the building and a remarkably
similar system has been discovered in the Cretan palace at Knosses.

Professor Marcel F Homet, an archaeologist and scholar from Algeria, once visited
the Amazon region to view its antiquities and made many amazing discoveries. From
inscriptions found on the painted rock, the Pedra Pintada, prof Homet recorded
symbols well-known in the Old World, such as the swastika, the double axe, the
spiral and also the sun symbol. He also indicates that Cretan ceramics were
discovered on the Marajo island, at the mouth of the Amazon and further reported
he found an Indian tribe called Syriana, which in Semitic simply means 'Our
Syrians'.

Many archaeologists continue to dispute the authenticity of such evidence gathered

from North and South America. Claims of hoaxing, while perhaps valid in some
instances, could not possibly extend to include the thousands of artifacts
recovered over centuries from hundreds of locatations, and from many countries of
the New World. The real and exciting history of the Americas must be told and this
undoubtedly means rewriting the history books.