The Paraíba Stone
"In the 1870s, a stone inscription was allegedly discovered in Paraíba, Brazil. A transcription was shown to Ladislau de Souza Mello Netto, director of the National Museum of Brazil. Netto accepted the inscription as genuine, but when it was later stated to be a hoax, Netto backed down and blamed foreigners for its fabrication. In the 1960s, Cyrus H. Gordon believed the inscription to be genuine and created a translation which begins, "We are Sidonian Canaanites from the city of the Mercantile King..." The inscription's letter forms are variations that individually occurred and disappeared over a span of 800 years and so the confluence in a single piece of writing verifies the inscription as a hoax."
- Text from Wikipedia entry for "Theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas" (accessed 11/15/2015)
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Blog Posts and Articles
- "Give Credit to the Phoenicians" (Ersjdamoo's Blog, 9/23/2012)
- "The “Phoenician” inscriptions from Paraiba, Brazil" (Austin Whittall, 3/2/2011)
- "The Paraíba (Parahyba) Stone" (Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, 7/27/2007)
