[Varda]

This is an interesting subject that constantly finds new adherents. Another group (other than Mormons) who may have planted Hebrew artifacts are Seventh Day Adventists. I remember reading the senior thesis of a Harvard archeologist who studied Hebrew inscriptions (and other evidence) in New Mexico hoping to find evidence of the so-called crypto-Jews (she was Jewish).

She found that what was thought to be evidence of Jews had actually been planted by a group of Seventh Day Adventists from Mexico City who had moved to New Mexico in the 1930’s.

[SunkenCiv]

In the late 1960s I read about a lead cross carved with Latin script and found in the SW somewhere. Barry Fell stated that the inscription appeared to be botched-together fragments of the Latin mottos of various noble families of Europe, thus modern; it had been carved, then inserted into a custom-dug spot in the caliche, which is an accumulated layer that had been cited as evidence of the cross' antiquity. That said, I don't have any confidence in debunkers, because they work out of a priori assumptions 100 percent of the time.

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