[blam]

" He discovered the Mayan writing on the ruins and decided it must be Carthaginian (well, it certainly wasn't Latin, Greek, or Hebrew)."

Maybe closer to Chinese?

The Olmec And The Shang

[Verginius Rufus]

Palatino was probably not well versed in Chinese oracle bone inscriptions.

Afro-centrists claim that the Olmec sculptures show African features (a sign that the Meso-American civilization was the result of diffusion from Africa).