nick c wrote:Daniel,
Do you think they are real ancient Egyptian carvings? If so why?
The hieroglyphs from the opening post by Gary are fake, this is confirmed (debunked as they call it). And the Phoenicians would not use hieroglyphs anyway.
But the Phoenician writings in the Americas are real, or not yet debunked, that is why i said probably yes.
This is all very probable because the Phoenician ships where seaworthy and humans tend to adventure everywhere they can, such ships are not used just to cross the Mediterranean.
A standard text on the ships:
"Nor were these boats tiny. The galley fighting ships, with their rows of galley oars, could have a crew of over a hundred people. That is a pretty good size. But even those were small compared to the Phoenician cargo ships with their vast, rounded hulls. These ocean-going ships were built for huge loads and long hauls. They made the extended trips from Mediterranean ports out to Cadiz, Lixis and other destinations on the Atlantic Ocean coasts of Spain and Morocco, and had to make each trip count.
People have remarked that those cargo ships which sailed the seas for many hundreds of years B.C. were comparable in size to the ones Columbus sailed to America in 1492 A.D. Thor Heyerdahl, the modern-day explorer, noted that the Phoenicians could have sailed to Central America themselves. I don't know if they did or not, but well-informed people see it as being within the capabilities of Phoenician ships and navigators. That is quite a compliment to these early people of the sea and what they were able to accomplish"
I forgot a link in previous post >
http://www.british-israel.ca/Phoenician.htm
And another link:
http://primarysources.newsvine.com/_new ... -new-world
Excerpt:
In 1974, Cyrus Gordon's Riddles in History was published, in which the author translates a Phoenician inscription found in Brazil in the 19th century, as follows:
"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 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 from the hand of Baal and we were no long 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 exalted gods and goddesses favor us!"
Regards,
Daniel
