The decoder ring: the Rosetta Stone and the Americas' written stones

SUMMARYThe decoder ring: the Rosetta Stone and the Americas' written stones

RECORDRosetta Stone (196 BC decree in hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek) found by French soldiers at Rashid, July 1799; Champollion's decipherment 1822. The Americas' own writing: Bishop Diego de Landa burned Maya codices at Maní in 1562; only four Maya codices survive (Dresden, Madrid, Paris, Grolier). Landa also wrote down a Maya "alphabet" (Relación, c. 1566), and Yuri Knorozov used it as the key to decipher Maya script starting in 1952. The man who burned the books left the key. INSCRIBED STONES found in the Americas (all

DISPUTEDmainstream calls most forgeries; communities hold them authentic; each needs deep research): Grave Creek Stone (WV, 1838); Newark Holy Stones (OH, 1860, Hebrew); Paraíba inscription (Brazil, 1872, claimed Phoenician); Davenport tablets (IA, 1877); Bat Creek Stone (TN, 1889, Paleo-Hebrew-like; in 1991 Mainfort and Kwas matched it to an illustration in an 1870 Masonic history book); Michigan relics (1890s-1920, cuneiform-like); Kensington Runestone (MN, 1898); Los Lunas Decalogue Stone (NM, Hebrew Ten Commandments); Fuente Magna (Bolivia, claimed proto-Sumerian)

PATTERNmost American "ancient language" stones surfaced 1838-1898, the decades right after the Rosetta decipherment made ancient scripts famous (timing: Record; meaning: Open)

LENSthe Old World got its decoder; the Americas' own libraries were burned, and the stones that echo Old World scripts were waved off as fakes (Pattern).