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The Metcalf Stone. Discovered in 1966 as Manfred Metcalf was sorting through large limestone rocks found at Ft. Benning, Ga. Searching through various rocks as he was making a handsome fireplace for his home Metcalf found some unusual markings on one rock. He returned to the rock site with a local geologist but no more rocks with markings could be found. He loaded the stone and drove to Columbus, Ga and met with Professor Joseph B. Mahan, Jr an experienced ethnologist and archaeologist. Mahan had recently been studying rituals of Yuchi Indians as well as ancient Hebrews of the Bronze Age. The professor found the markings resembled eastern Mediterranean Sea markings. Mahan found the markings to be real and not reproduced. To confirm his findings he made a plaster cast and sent it to Professor Cyrus H. Gordon, Head of the Dept of Mediterranean Studies at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. Gordon then traveled to Columbus to see the actual stone with Professor Mahan. Together the "two scientist became convinced that the glyph-engraved rock was positive evidence that the prehistoric Indians of Georgia and much of the southeastern United States were somehow linked to the people and cultures of Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the Bronze Age ". Actually a Scots-Irish trader who was well educated wrote a book published in London in 1777 about simular findings. The book by James Adair is The History of the American Indians. He wrote he believed the Indians were " decended from the Israelites" What will be found next ?

Reference: It Happened In Georgia by James A. Crutchfield 2000 ad

The History of the American Indians by James Adair 1777 ad