Archaeology: Were Ancient Writings, Giants Pulled from Ohio Burial Mounds? Ummm, No - The Columbus Dispatch

Bradley Lepper tells how the Muskingum County, Ohio, Brush Creek Mound tablet came to be famous. Excavator John Everhart claimed it possessed inscriptions that were "chiefly Greek, commingled with Phoenician and Etruscan," and therefore decidedly ancient. A fast internet search indicated that some have seriously tried to decipher the characters. But they were actually carved by a workman who later took his hoaxer-employer to court for nonpayment. Jason Colavito attacks fraud in West Virginia Archaeologists Blast "Appalachian Magazine" for Reviving Claims about Irish Monks in Ancient America. He lauds the Council for West Virginian Archaeology for taking a stand against an article in the December 21, 2018 Appalachian Magazine touting Native American petroglyphs as having been composed by pre-Columbian Irish monks. The Council said "attributing Native American sites to Europeans has problematic imperialist, or even racist, undertones." A reader points out that the article itself is a rehash of previous Appalachian Magazine articles from just two months prior--September 15, 2018, and October 5, 2014. Jason takes aim at media misrepresentation of history in Australia's History Channel Marks Australia Day with "Ancient Aliens" Claims about Space Aliens and Egyptians Colonizing Down Under. What Australian historians are saying in that article could be read with reference to The Anomalist's January 30th reviews of the U.S. History Channel's Project Blue Book. (WM)

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