I stumbled across a website that describes in detail the story behind a rock found in the early 1800’s in what would later become known as New Mexico. Inscribed in this rock was a passage written in a strange script. Little else was known about the rock and not much attention was paid to it.

Until a Harvard Professor translated the message…

From the site:

in 1949, Robert H. Pfeiffer of the Harvard University, made a first known translation of the strange writing. Being an authority on the Old Testament (the Hebrew Scriptures of the Bible) he concluded that the inscription was a copy of the Ten Commandments. He thought that the inscription was written in the Phoenician, the Moabite, and the Greek languages.

Further speculation involved the authorship of that rock inscription.Some even considered it to be an inscription from a member of one of the lost tribes of Israel. Others have expressed the thought that perhaps some Mormons may have carved this message in an attempt to support their views of an ancient pre-columbian semitic history in North America. However, a simple research on Mormon Web sites reveals absolutely nothing about this rock inscription. It is not used by their church as a proof for the existence of ancient Nephites in America. For a certainty it is not written in so-called “reformed Egyptian” language.

So what the heck is this thing anyway? Is it a fake? Absolutely. But it is certainly a head scratcher. Who would have had the knowledge and the desire to create this fake? And for what reason? That story would be an interesting one to discover.

If it isn’t a fake…well…I won’t even go there.

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-Matt