Columbus was not the first one...

[Anonymousecoview]

The Phoenician Paraiba Stone of Brazil proves that Columbus was not the first explorer over the Atlantic. Let's see, there was the Vikings, the Chinese, ancient India and now the Phoenicians. Come as see this stone fully translated for the first time and prove a visit from the ancient land of Canaan to the shores of America....

http://www.scribd.com/doc/140852220/Phoenicians-in-the-Americas

[Politicalboi]

1. Damn Furriners!

I'm sure the GOP will investigate this too.

[Anonymousecoview]

6. What is the GOP?

[arcane1]

2. "it is highly suspicious that the stone itself has never been found"

That kind of jumped out at me. Someone claims to have found an inscription on a stone, but there is no stone?

[Anonymousecoview]

4. The stone was copied...

There is not an original copy of the Hebrew Bible either, but the copies are considered authentic. Read on - you'll find a reason why the land owner would have not wanted to step forward with the stone...

[arcane1]

8. And Joseph Smith claimed to copy golden plates that nobody else has seen

Therefore the Book of Mormon is 100% authentic.

[Anonymousecoview]

10. I hear you

The article above looks for authenticity in the Paraiba stone, not from its claim to be ancient Phoenician, but rather from a scientific breakdown of the writing itself in comparison to other ancient writings from the Middle East.

[Warpy]

3. Hey don't leave out St. Brendan

whose drunken tall tales actually did contain a decent map of the Americas from Newfoundland down to Cape Cod. And he made it home to tell them.

Columbus was the first imperialist, though, claiming the land he found for a European monarch, to hell with the people who already lived there and thought it was theirs.

Monarchies were wealthy and organized enough to mount exploratory missions, military conquests, and large scale colonization as ships full of traders from seafaring cultures had not been.

Saying Columbus was the first has always been inaccurate. Saying he was the first imperialist takes care of that.

[Anonymousecoview]

5. So true...

It's easy to be content with the atmosphere of willful ignorance about a 500 year history of imperial genocide against indigenous cultures. Yet, Indigenous World-view will restore the earth....

[brewens]

7. I always found the Kennewick Man debate amusing. So they found this guy with supposedly

Scandinavian features. So what? That doesn't give European descendants any claim to having our people here earlier. Whatever he was, if he had any descendants, they would be the native people found here by early explorers.

I wouldn't say it was impossible for early tribes that migrated from Eurasia or wherever to have been somewhat mixed race in the first place. Why not? It might be a stretch to think an African could end up with people from Siberia coming over 10,000 years ago, but a few individuals from a more northern region with different characteristics might have happened.

[Anonymousecoview]

9. Good points...

Your perspective leads us towards what the Blackfoot Elders have been telling us about their stories existing since as long as the rivers have run...