Willie Martin
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 Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:35 am Post subject: Japheth and Ham - 12 |
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The letter was then buried in the archives for nearly two hundred years
until James Whittall, of the Early Sites Research Society, re-discovered the
letter with the inscriptions and researched them with the American
Numismatic Society and with Epigraphic scientists.
The inscriptions proved to be that of Kufic origin which is a form of
Arabic. Undoubtedly, one of the trading mariners brought the coins to
America to purchase the Celtic goods which were for sale.
After the newly designed steel plow was invented by Charles Newbold in 1797,
the earth could be turned over to a much greater depth. The furrow that the
plow made opened up the soil and there, by the thousands, were found Roman
coins!
In the days of early America, the extensive study of Latin and Roman history
was required for a college degree. Thus, the people of America readily knew
that Europeans came to America and lived in America much earlier than
Christopher Columbus. But later, from American history books, our school
children were taught the Columbus mystique and they were taught that the
world was considered flat by all educated people until Columbus discovered
America!
All of those Roman coins that were discovered were ignored and it has
remained that way until very recently. As we continue our studies, we will
realize why the truth was buried.
In 1961, Frederick J. Pohl raised the nagging question of the Roman coins in
his book Atlantic Crossings Before Columbus. He describes notable finds of
Roman coins in the United States.
Other scientists have carried on the task of proving the European travels to
this continent long before Columbus. One of the notable men in this field is
Professor Cyclone Covey of Wake Forest University. Much will be discussed
about his investigations later in this lesson.
Roman coins are not the only money found in America. Carthaginian,
Celto-Iberian, Greek, Libyan and Norse coins have been found in locations
all over the United States.
Near Castle Gardens, Wyoming a Petroglyph was found, written in
Celto-Gaelic, describing the location of what would be the description of a
bank.
Yes, the Petroglyph says that this was the first money-changing location to
reach the area and that the bank operated with no usury!
Undoubtedly, this was a location for exchanging the value of one coin for
another for the purpose of trading and traveling. The Petroglyph written in
Celto-Gaelic undoubtedly means that the Celts were located in Wyoming and
the fact that they operated in Wyoming and the fact that they operated with
no usury is significant. We will shortly discuss the type of law the Celts
exercised.
From 400 B.C. to 1100 A.D., the Western world realized six maritime powers.
They all came out of the Mediterranean area except for the last one.
They are, in order of their appearance,
(1) the Carthaginians of Tunisia;
(2) the Greeks and Libyans of North Africa;
(3) the Romans;
(4) the Byzantine Greeks who succeeded Rome;
(5) the Islamic powers of North Africa and Asia; and
(6) the Norse sea-rovers.
Although the Celts were never realized as a maritime power, since they were
a people scattered over many countries, their ocean-going ships were among
the best. These ships were huge in comparison to the Roman ships.
They were two thousand tons in capacity as compared to about four hundred
tons of the average Roman ship. The ships that the uncle of Jesus, Joseph of
Arimathea, used to haul lead and tin from the Glastonbury area of England
for sale to the Romans were Celtic in design and operation. Again, Julius
Caesar spoke very highly of the sea-going prowess of the Celts and their
ships. Throughout this period, each of these maritime powers sent ships all
over the high seas and to America.
But it was the Libyans who transcended all of the others in the span of
their voyage. A Libyan, named Eratosthenes of Cyrene, accurately calculated
the earth's circumference. He reasoned that the earth's oceans had to be
continuous and consequently a ship could sail around the world in either
direction and return to the starting point. The date was approximately 239
B.C.!
Eratosthenes developed the system of the meridian circles of the map of the
globe. The meridian circles are simply the points on the globe where the SUN
is directly overhead at noon at the local time.
He set these meridian circles in a grid in such a way that a mariner could
accurately locate his position. He drew the primary meridian circle to pass
through Alexandria.
The Libyans then set sail in their ocean-going vessels to prove that
Eratosthenes was right. Their ships were equipped with magnetic compasses.
Their compass consisted of a ceramic bowl with the compass points engraved
around the edge. A lodestone (a strongly magnetic variety of the mineral
magnetie) was floated on the water in the bowl.
Sometimes, a magnetized iron strip was suspended in the bowl. They also had
a device for navigation that was the forerunner of the modern sextant.
The Libyans traveled eastward, through the Suez Canal that King Darius had
built, then sailed down the Red Sea, and then around the tip of India,
through the Indonesian straits and then into the Pacific Ocean. They arrived
on the West Coast of America, disembarked and traveled inland to Nevada.
These ancient Libyans settled in the arid Nevada country because it was very
similar to their own home country. In various locations in Nevada are
petroglyphs, written in Aramaic-Libyan and Celto-Gaelic which reflect their
mariner skills. |
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