To: EggsAckley
Thank you so much, very interesting.
This doesn't look like scratching, sure looks like who ever put it there was leaving a message.
To: Just mythoughts
The Bat Creek Stone was discovered in 1889 in an undisturbed burial mound in Eastern Tennessee by the Smithsonian's Mound Survey project.
In 1971, Cyrus Gordon identified the letters inscribed on the stone as Paleo-Hebrew of approximately the first or second century A.D. According to him, the five letters to the left of the comma-shaped word divider read, from right to left, LYHWD, or "for Judea."
In 1988, wood fragments found with the inscription were Carbon-14 dated to somewhere between 32 A.D. and 769 A.D. These dates are consistent with the apparent date of the letters.
Today the stone resides out of sight in a back room of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
41 posted on
02/21/2003 2:57:43 PM PST by
EggsAckley
(nuke the gay whales for jesus)
To: Just mythoughts
How odd.....I've gone through life knowing I was Cherokee, but the concept of being Jewish is another concept altogether. In a way, it explains the favorable feelings towards Israel that I've always had. Strange. Nothing like having the earth move beneath your feet, making what seemed solid and real become fluid and imaginary.
46 posted on
02/21/2003 3:02:17 PM PST by
11B3
(Liberalism is mental retardation. They should all be institutionalized. Permanently.)
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