[CJ Wolf]

But they did! Evidence abounds that many of these visitors to America were Israelites, Dan being just one tribe among them. A clay tablet found in a rock crevice near Big Bend, Texas, tells of Zoroastrians (followers of Mithraic sun woiship) who came once to America, probably from Iberia. Dr. Henriette Mertz, Professors Cyrus Gordon and Cyclone Covey, and Dr. Robert Stieglitz discovered an immigration to Tennessee and Kentucky of homeless Jews after the many pogroms of Antiochus in Syria and Nero and Hadrian in Rome. Some were here already when, in 69, during the First Revolt of Jerusalem against the Romans, others came over. Flavius Josephus, who himself took part in this revolt, mentions that through the year 69 a great comet hung like a flaming sword over Jerusalem. Some Zealots took it to be the sign of the coming of the promised Messiah and rebelled. Today we know that it was Halley’s Comet, making one of its many returns. A stone excavated from a burial mound at Bat Creek in Tennessee tells us that Jews in Tennessee recognized the sign and inscribed the stone “The Comet for the Jews.” This strongly suggests that Tennessee and Kentucky became havens of refuge for these persecuted Hebrews.

[gleeaikin]

You should try to find Gloria Farley’s “THey All Discovered America. For 40 years she has tracked down and photographed writing and designs on rock walls throughout the US. Some may be as old as 4,000 years, and many are at least 2,000 years old. Aside from Vikings and runes, there is Celt-Iberian, north African, phonecian(sp?) and other scripts. I don’t recall seeing any Islamic Arabic writing shown. The north African and Iberian scripts mostly predated the rise of Islam.