Israelites, Egyptians, Welsh: why every lost race points to the Americas

SUMMARYIsraelites, Egyptians, Welsh: why every lost race points to the Americas (Nov 3, 2026). RECORD, Welsh: the Madoc story (a Welsh prince sailing west about 1170) was used by John Dee around 1578–80 to argue Queen Elizabeth's "British" title to America; Jefferson asked Lewis and Clark (1804) to look for "Welsh Indians"; John Evans (1796–97) went up the Missouri to find them among the Mandan. RECORD, Israelites: Menasseh ben Israel, The Hope of Israel (1650), argued Native Americans were the lost tribes; James Adair, History of the American Indians (1775), argued the same; Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews (1823); the Book of Mormon (1830). DISPUTED, Bat Creek Stone: found in 1889 in a Tennessee burial mound by the Smithsonian's own Mound Survey (Cyrus Thomas) and published by them as "Cherokee" letters; read in the 1970s by Cyrus Gordon as Paleo-Hebrew; called a forgery by McCarter (1993) and Mainfort and Kwas (2004), who traced it to an 1870 Masonic book. The Smithsonian's own dig produced it, and its experts first misread it, then called it a fake (hostile witness both ways). RECORD, Americans in Europe: Pliny (Natural History 2.67, citing Cornelius Nepos) says that around 60 BC "Indians" shipwrecked on the German coast were given to the proconsul Q. Metellus Celer (who they were is debated); a Native American mtDNA lineage (C1e) entered Icelandic families around 1000 AD (Ebenesersdóttir et al., 2011)

PATTERNeach European power found its own ancestors in the Americas (Welsh for England, Israelites for scripture, Egyptians for the mound myth) and used the story as a claim

LENS (Tito)the line runs the other way: the ancient Americans were the original Moors, who traveled to Europe and settled it; the later "Moors" (North African/Arab) are a rewrite and stolen culture. OPEN, needs deep research: old-world texts naming western/Atlantic peoples (Pliny, Strabo, Al-Masudi, Al-Idrisi's Atlantic voyages), Moorish heraldry, and the genetics of medieval Iberian Moors.