LOS LUNAS DECALOGUE STONE

A large boulder on the side of Hidden Mountain near Los Lunas, New Mexico, was discovered in 1933 by an archaeologist who was directed to it by a guide who had seen it as a boy back in the 1880s. It is inscribed with the Ten Commandments in a Samaritan script, a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.

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THE BAT CREEK STONE

An inscribed stone was recovered during a professional archaeological dig in Loudon County, Tennessee by John W. Emmert of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology in 1889, during its Mound Survey Project.

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In June and November of 1860 a highly respected Licking County, Ohio, surveyor, David Wyrick, unearthed two stones bearing what, at that time, appeared to be ancient inscriptions. The first artifact found was a triangular shaped stone, or a keystone (42 in the photo below), recovered from the bottom of a pit adjacent to ancient Hopewell earthworks in Newark, Ohio.

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Locations in North America Having Evidence of Hebrew Written Language and Culture

Several sites in North America having either actual Hebrew inscriptions and/or indications of Hebrews living at those locations have been found. These sites and artifacts include:

• Newark Decalogue Stone (discussed above) with inscription having an ancient form of Hebrew characters that, when translated, were found to be a complete rendition of the Ten Commandments.

Bat Creek Stone (see p. 131) with its ancient Hebrew Inscription that translates to "For the Judeans" and has been scientifically verified as ancient and thus authentic.

• Los Lunas Decalogue Stone, an 80 ton boulder southwest of Los Lunas, New Mexico with inscribed ancient Hebrew characters again translated to the Ten Commandments.

• Hebrew Petroglyph Panel at Conchas Lake, New Mexico, which was found by Ron Rigoni on his 10,000 acre ranch and examined as authentic by Scott Wolter, American Petrographic Services Inc., Minneapolis, MN.

Tucson Lead Artifacts with Hebrew inscriptions which were found in Tucson, Arizona in the late 1800's and were declared as authentic following a scientific investigation by Scott Wolter.

• Hanukkiah Earthworks, a massive earthen mound structure erected by the ancient Hopewell civilization in central Ohio which was surveyed by Squier and Davis and published in the very first book by the Smithsonian Institution, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi River Valley, in 1848. (see p. 312).

• Newark Keystone. The shape of the stone is reminiscent of the keystone used at the top of stone arches anciently and it is inscribed on all four sides with ancient Hebrew characters translated to such ritual phrases as "The Holy of Holies," "The Law of God," "The King of the Earth," and "The Word of the Lord."

Newark Stone Bowl is another artifact discovered along with the Newark Holy Stone collection. Bows of this shape and size were used in temple rituals in Israel prior to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D. and because of purity laws had to be made of stone rather than pottery which was believed to harbor impurities and could not be used to hold sacred oils used in temple ceremonies.