Review: The Lost Worlds of Ancient America
The Lost Worlds of Ancient America is a collection of research papers by writers who offer an alternative view of the prehistory of the Americas. The book claims to offer “compelling evidence of ancient immigrants, lost technologies, and places of power” in ancient America before the arrival of Columbus.
Edited by Frank Joseph, the highly controversial editor of Ancient American magazine, the book includes forty-five chapters divided into four parts. Part I is titled “Physical Proof” and focuses on artifacts discovered in the New World that have a possible Old World origin. Some of these artifacts include a “Los Angeles monolith” that bears resemblance to Phoenician artifacts and Roman coins found in the Midwest.
Part II is titled “Sites” and focuses on archaeological sites in the New World that appear to show connections to sites in the Old World. Articles include titles such as “Great Serpents from Kansas to Scotland,” “A Templar Tower in Rhode Island,” and “Libyans’ 3rd-Century Eclipse in Kentucky.”
The Lost Worlds of Ancient America presents evidence of varying quality some more convincing than others but overall succeeds in raising interesting questions about the true history of the Americas before Columbus. This is not a scientific text and thus one must approach it with an open but critical mind. Discriminating readers will certainly have little difficulty separating the wheat from the chaff and will come away with, at the very least, knowledge of artifacts and archaeological sites of which they were previously unaware.
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