Before Columbus: Links Between the Old World and Ancient America

Artikelnummer 10124356

Flaptekst voorzijde: *Before Columbus* provides startling new evidence linking ancient Mesoamerica with the civilizations of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Thoroughly documented, the culmination of a lifetime of research, the book vividly demonstrates that transoceanic travel across the Atlantic and Pacific to the New World was taking place as long as five thousand years ago. Dr. Gordon constructs his theory from sculpture, historical references, Egyptian, Babylonian, and other recorded literatures; Greek classics; the Bible; ancient maps; linguistic history; and archeological discoveries. He argues that Jews from Palestine migrated to Southeast U.S.A. in the second century A.D., and explores similarities between the Aztec tradition of ‘The Plumed Serpent’ and Mediterranean myth. Achterflap: Dr. Gordon interprets the significance of a Canaanite inscription discovered in Brazil in 1872, telling of a Near Eastern ship that landed there in 531 B.C., and analyses a Hebrew inscription found at Bat Creek, Tennessee, proving pre-Columbian contact. *Before Columbus* is a searching, provocative exposition of an idea that shatters traditional approaches to pre-Columbian history. De auteur: Dr. Cyrus H. Gordon is Head of the Department of Mediterranean Studies at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. Ontwerp: Clive Tunnicliffe. Achterzijde: citaat van Robert Graves: “Professor Gordon authenticates... refugees from the last disastrous Jewish insurrection against Rome somehow made their way across the Atlantic in large numbers... Columbus, of course, did not even rediscover America: he simply used maps.” Inhoudstafel: List of Illustrations ix; Acknowledgements xi; Introduction 15; I. Mesoamericans Portrayed by Their Own Sculptors 21; II. The Testimony of Greek Authors 36; III. The Plumed Serpent 50; IV. Megaliths and Mariners 68; V. The Metcalf Stone and Ancient Writing 89; VI. Sea People 106; VII. The Evidence of Language 128; VIII. Cultural Transmission 139; IX. The Popol Vuh and the Ancient Near East 154; X. Summation 170; XI. Postscript on Bat Creek 175; Appendices: Notes 191; Bibliography 207; Index 213. First American edition 1971. First British Commonwealth edition 1972. Turnstone Press Ltd, 37 Upper Addison Gardens, London W14. The maps on pages 71, 72, 74 and 75 are from *Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age* by Charles Hapgood ©1966 by the author. All translations from the Old World languages have been verified by the author from the original sources. Set in Times New Roman. Printed in Great Britain by Lowe & Brydone (Printers) Ltd, London and Thetford.