This post is to remind long-time readers (and inform new readers to my blog) about a large artifact that exists in New Mexico which is evidence that Hebrew-speaking people were present in North America in very ancient historical contexts. In a remote location in New Mexico is a large stone slab with the Ten Commandments inscribed on it in ancient Paleo-Hebrew letters. This very ancient Hebrew script was used during the reigns of Kings David and Solomon, and it looks very different than the post-exilic square Hebrew letters that were developed during the Babylonian captivity period after the exile of the tribes of Israel from the Promised Land. I personally visited the site with a group of epigraphers in 1999.
If you do a web-search regarding this artifact, you will find a variety of sites and the opinions of “experts” who deny that the artifact is a very ancient example of a Paleo-Hebrew inscription. All kinds of theories will be offered to deny the obvious fact of what it is. Since it is written in the Hebrew language of the ancient Kings of Israel and Judah, it obviously dates to that time. Indeed, it is “smoking gun” evidence of that fact. However, affirming the obvious would be an admission that the Bible has accurate historical information in it and it would be a major blow to the evolutionary-dominated theories that permeate modern education and academia. The first link offers much information about the artifact itself and its correct historical context, but there is a website for a New Mexico Epigraphic Society which no longer exists and the photo library about the Los Lunas artifact (which was on a link to that group’s website) is no longer an active link. The second link shows the inscribed stone slab next to a human adult to give readers a sense of the slab’s size.
Let us review some key (and obvious) conclusions: (A) the fact that the inscription is written in ancient Hebrew confirms the inscription was made by Hebrew-speakers, (B) the fact that it is in the very ancient Paleo-Hebrew script confirms that it was made in the time period when that script was used by Hebrew speakers in the pre-exilic period, (C) that it is present in North America proves these ancient Hebrew-speakers were present in very ancient North America, (D) that the inscription is a recitation of the Ten Commandments given to Moses shows that these ancient Hebrew speakers were devotees of the biblical Torah commandments they inscribed on the stone slab. As is stated in the first link and third link, there is only one time in ancient Israelite history when such an inscription could have been made. It had to be at a time when the ancient Israelite kingdom(s) were powerful and rich enough to finance such an expedition to a location half-way around the world, and it had to be at a time when devotion to the God of the Bible and Torah law permeated Israelite society to the point that even sailors and explorers thousands of miles from home proclaimed the Ten Commandments on a stone slab (instead of a “Kilroy was here” kind of graffiti).
There is only one period of time in the biblical narratives that the above factors were in place for this Los Lunas inscription to be made: the reign of the famous King Solomon. The initial decades of his reign were a time of global peace and breathtaking wealth for the Israelite kingdom which then was composed of all the twelve tribes of Israel. King Hiram of Tyre (apparently the chief of the Phoenician city-states, formed a very strong alliance with Kings David and Solomon (I Kings 5 and II Chronicles 8:18). The Phoenician/Israelite ports on the Mediterranean Sea gave ready access to the Atlantic Ocean, and it is known the Phoenicians operated tin mines in the British Isles). I Kings 9:26-27 and II Chronicles 8:17-18 relate that Solomon built a seaport at Etzion-Geber (modern Aqaba on the Red Sea) which gave access to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. These scriptures also reveal that the Israelites under Solomon and the Phoenicians under King Hiram were such close allies that they jointly crewed their combined navies. Solomon’s reign was a time of peace and world trade during his righteous years and II Chronicles 9:21 records Solomon had his navies take specimens of exotic animals from other continents (such as apes and peacocks). That verse also asserts Solomon’s navy returned every three years so its voyages were clearly far-flung.
The Americas were known for centuries to the biblical civilizations. Ancient Hebrew inscriptions have been found in America in other locations and the ancient copper mines in the Lake Michigan region were carbon-dated to have been worked to exhaustion circa 1000 B.C., which is the time of King David and Solomon when they were accumulating immeasurable quantities of copper for Solomon’s Temple and his other major building projects (I Chronicles 22:14-16).
Much more evidence about the greatness of the ancient Israelite kingdoms and the modern locations of all the tribes of Israel (Genesis 49 and Revelation 7 prophesy all the tribes will be present on earth among the nations in the latter days of our current age) are available in my four printed books and my E-book which can be obtained at the home page of my website. The information they contain will give you a whole new perspective on ancient history and modern events.
A couple more details must be mentioned. The third link offers information about a doppelganger of mine being confused with me regarding the conclusions regarding the Los Lunas inscriptions. That person had different opinions on the Los Lunas stone than me so be aware of this if you do web searches for my name. Not every “Steven Collins” is me.
- Finally, I have often stated in conversations with others about internet reports that none of them “are under oath.” However, my conclusions about the Los Lunas inscriptions are supported by a court trial wherein the evidence presented was “under oath.” The trial was conducted in Albuquerque, New Mexico in December, 1986, and it resulted from some inscribed stones that seemed to be in an ancient language similar to the Los Lunas stone’s inscription. Some people asserted the newly-found stones were inscribed in a kind of Greek script which could perhaps mean the Los Lunas Ten Commandments stone might be from a Greek script and a different time context. Disputes arose about the correctness of the collective inscriptions and whether the newly-found inscribed stones were genuine or hoaxes. This trial is examined in great detail in an article entitled An Epigraphic Hoax on Trial in New Mexico, as cited in the 1988 volume of the Epigraphic Society Occasional Publications (ESOP). Expert testimony from ancient Hebrew linguistic scholars presented in that trial proved conclusively that the so-called “Greek inscribed stones” were modern hoaxes in a phony pseudo-Greek format and that the Los Lunas Ten Commandments stone was genuinely Paleo-Hebrew (which includes the time of David and Solomon). I could not find the aforementioned article on the internet, but I did find a digitized Table of Contents of the cited ESOP volume (fourth link). The referenced article begins on p. 206. Oh yes, considerable money was involved in the trial cited above and the ESOP article cited above reported that the jury found the hoaxer (who had presented the phony “Greek” explanation for the “inscribed stones” and the Los Lunas slab) guilty of nine counts of fraud and one count of tax evasion. The article adds that hoaxer received a 15-year prison sentence. Remember these facts whenever you see someone saying or writing that the Los Lunas slab’s inscription is anything other than very ancient Paleo-Hebrew script. That conclusion has already been adjudicated.
The true history of the world will not be found in the politically-correct, God-rejecting content of modern historical works and academic journals. The more that facts are unearthed or found from the ancient world, the more the narratives of the Bible are affirmed. Who would have guessed that a stone slab in New Mexico would support the narratives of the Bible, a book concerning ancient Mideastern and Mediterranean civilizations.
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