Brandeis Archaeologist Says
Phoenicians Beat Columbus
WALTHAM, Mass. — A noted
;Brandeis University archaeologist
has concluded that Phoenician sea-
farers discovered the New World
12,000 years before Columbus.
Dr. , Cyrus Gordon, the Joseph
And Esther Foster Professor of
Alediterranean Studies, bases his
:conclusion on a new analysis of a
: long-suspect inscription found in
:Parahyba, Brazil, in 1872.
The question of the inscription's
,authenticity was revived unexpect-
r edly when Dr. Jules Piccus, a pro-
lessor of Romance languages at
the University of MaSsachusetts.
And a longtime friend of Dr. Gor-
don, came upon a transcription of
: the inscription in an old scrapbook
he had acquired.
The transcription sent to Dr.
Gordon was contained in a letter,
dated Jan. 31, 1874, from Ladis-
lau Netto, who later became head
of the New York Public Library.
Dr. Gordon had known of the
text previously, but from a faulty
: copy published in 1899, which
through the year's, led authorities
to dismiss the inscription's au-
_thenticity.
Upon examining the text sent to
ihim by Dr. Piccus, Dr. Gordon con-
cluded that the vocabulary and
( grammatical usages which had
; aroused doubts in the minds of cer-
tain 19th Century experts actually
.testified to the genuineness of the
,inscription. He noted that most of
; these words and forms have been
•authenticated in inscriptions dis-
,covered since 1874 in Phoenician
.excavations in the Mediterranean
.area.
The dramatic nature of the
Phoenician landing is best sug-
gested by the text of the inscrip-
tion:
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Sidon, the city of the king. Com-
merce has cast us on this distant
shore, a land of mountains. We
set (sacrificed) a youth for the
exalted gods and goddesses in
the nineteenth year of Hiram,
our mighty king. We embarked
from Ezion-Geber into the Red
Sea and voyaged with ten ships.
We were at sea together for two
years around the land belonging
to Ham (Africa) but were sepa-
rated by a storm (lit., 'from the
hand of Baal') and we were no
longer with our companions. So
we have come here, 12 men and
three women, on a new shore
which I, the admiral, control.
But auspiciously may the exalted
gods and goddesses favor us!"
Dr. Gordon says that Ezion-
Geber is an offshore island near
present-day Eilat in the Gulf of
Aqaba.
Although this particular landing
may have been accidental, there
may have been "many intentional
landings of Mediterranean sea-
farers in the New World during
the centuries (and even millennia)
before Columbus," said Dr. Gor-
don.
Such contacts could have helped
the pre-Columbian Indian to de-
velop the high American civiliza-
tions that lasted until they were
ruined by the Conquistadores, Dr.
Gordon says.
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