When the King of Bavaria purchased the ramins of an Ancient Egyptian priestess (Henut Taui) in the early 19th century, her sarcophagus was placed in a Munich museum and stood undisturbed for a century.
In 1992, toxicologist Svetlana Balabanova discovered traces of cocaine and nicotine in the hair of Priestess Henut Taui...
Balabanova went on to test 134 additional mummies and bodies, including ones from Sudan, China, and Austria. One-third of them tested positive for nicotine and cocaine.
Even the mummy of Ramses was examined. Not only were tobacco and cocaine found in his body, but the nicotine was 35x that of an average cigarette smoker. The idea that Egyptians could trade with an undiscovered continent thousands of miles away was almost inconceivable, but it’s true. There was an ancient international drug trade connecting South and North America with Africa and Asia.
Part 2 - Sea-Farers from the Levant: Do Ancient Inscriptions Rewrite History of the Americas?
Supposedly, The Elephant Slabs are written in the Vai script which was used by the Malians to record their messages when they came to the Americas. The Malians sailed to the Americas around 1310. The Mandinkas founded the Mali Empire.
The elephant-decorated Montezuma Valley Jar, was found by Frederick Bennett Wright in 1885 & Wright claimed the jar was found in ruins situated in the Montezuma Valley “within sight” of the place where the Elephant Slabs were found.
There are two Elephant Slabs.
The larger slab with eight lines of inscriptions is six inches wide and fourteen inches long (15 cm by 35.5 cm).
The smaller slab is six inches wide and six inches long (15 cm by 15 cm)
The Elephant Slabs were discovered in 1910 in Native American ruins, by a boy at Flora Vista, New Mexico. Edwin Sayles (Arizona State Museum) claimed that the Elephant Slabs arrived at the museum in 1950
Describing the iconography of Anantasayin in Chapter 36 and verse 26, Mayamatham says that Vishnu in ananta sayana ( reclining posture on snake-bed) must be depicted with 4 hands. Upper two hands would hold Shanku and Chakra. Of the other two, the left hand holds a flower and the right hand holds his weapon, the mace.
This would suggest the existence of a trade route extending from The Americas to India. SRC - https://www.academia.edu/3088989/Maize_Diffused_to_India_before_Columbus_Came_to_America_Across_Before_Columbus
According to Vishnudharmotthara (III – 81- 6a), Vishnu holds "Sanatana Manjari" in his left hand. A Manjari could be a sprout or pearl or bud or a clutter of blossoms or sprig or foliage or some flower. Manjari also means parallel line or row. This meaning fits with maize that has parallel rows of kernels.
J.S. Wakefield's sensational paper "Shipping of Michigan Copper across the Atlantic in the Bronze Age (Isle Royale and Keweenaw Peninsula, c. 2400BC-1200 BC)" [https://grahamhancock.com/wakefieldjs1/] - where we have both chemical analysis and written shipping records/drawing and historical accounts of copper ingots of a particular shape being traded in the Mediterranean sea...
Oxhide ingots have also been excavated in:
the Minoan ruins of Hagia Triadha in Crete (dated to 1550-1500 BC),
others have been found in Sardinia, Cyprus, the Nile Delta, Turkey and Bulgaria.
Researcher Zena Halpern, (Ref - Farnoux, A., Knossos, Abrams Inc., (ISBN 0-8109-2819-1), reports “I saw heaps of copper ingots in the Maritime Museum in Haifa, Israel”.
“Metal bars in the oxhide shape dating from c.1700 BC have been found at Falmouth in Cornwall”, England.
Egyptian New Kingdom tomb paintings and temple reliefs depict a great number of copper ingots, but only one has been found in Egypt, as they were consumed there. (Ref - Rydholm, F., “Old World Copper Miners of Ancient Michigan”, The Barnes Review, July/Aug, 2002 Vol.VIII, No.4, pg.37).
Giffhorn breaks a taboo that still exists in mainstream ancient American studies by interpreting the reports of Spanish conquistadors about European-looking Chachapoya and the origins of the 'Gringuitos', the 'blond Indians' (Fig. 5) of the Andean region
a young, blond and brown-eyed gringuita in the Chachapoya region.
The verse is as follows:
"குமரி மாநிலம் நெடுங்கலை ஆக்கம்
அமர்நிலைப் பேரியல் வெற்புறம் திறனாய்
பலதுளி யாற்றுப் பெருமழை திறனிலைப்
புக்குறும் நிலைத் திறன் ஏழேழ் நிலமும்
ஏழேழு நாடென இயம்புறும் காலை"
There was a Mayan who published his book called "ainthiRam" (ஐந்திறம்) in the 2nd Sangam assembly.
The existence of this book came to light when the famous sculptor, Dr V.Ganapati Sthapati discovered an edition of this text in Saraswathi Mahal Library of Tanjore.
Written as verses in Tamil, this book has a self proclamation that it was authored by Maya, the architect. Though the book dwells on mind control and concentration on Pranava for a successful sculptor, it does make a reference to the land when it was written...7 X 7 = 49 lands of Kumari
Diffusion Theory is the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another. Examples include:
war chariots (slide 14) & Guns (slide 27)
Western business suits
https://www.paulwagner.com/the-cocaine-mummies-henut-taui/
Balabanova, S. et al. (1992), "First Identification of Drugs in Egyptian Mummies", Naturwissenschaften 79, p. 358. - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1522918/
"Curse of the Cocaine Mummies" written and directed by Sarah Marris. (Producers: HilaryLawson, Maureen Lemire and narrated by Hilary Kilberg). A TVF Production for Channel Four in association with the Discovery Channel, 1997.
Counsell, David J. "Intoxicants in Ancient Egypt? Opium, nymphea, coca, and tobacco", in David, Rosalie (ed),Egyptian mummies and modern science, Cambridge University Press2008, pp. 211-15.ISBN978-0-511-37705-1
"A look at the Evidence for Cocaine in Mummies" (https://web.archive.org/web/20140821182342/http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=45).Thehallofmaat.com. August 21, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
American Drugs in Egyptian Mummies (https://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm)
Balababova, S., F. Parsche, and W. Pirsig. 1992. First identification of drugs in Egyptian mummies. Naturwissenschaften 79:358.
Bisset, N.G. and M.H. Zenk. 1993. Responding to 'First identification of drugs in Egyptian mummies'. Naturwissenschaften 80:244-245.
Bjorn, L.O. 1993. Responding to 'First identification of drugs in Egyptian mummies'. Naturwissenschaften80:244.
Cartwell, L.W. et. al. 1991. Cocaine metabolites in pre-Columbian mummy hair. Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association 84:11-12.
Discovery Information. 1997. Curse of the Cocaine Mummies. Thirty-six page transcript of program viewed on US National TV in January 1997 and July 1999.
Kehoe, A.B. 1998. The Land of Prehistory, A Critical History of American Archaeology. Routledge, New York and London. 266 pp.
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McPhillips, M. et. al. 1998. Hair analysis, new laboratory ability to test for substance use. British Journal of Psychiatry 173: 287-290.
Nerlich, A.G. et. al. 1995. Extensive pulmonary hemorrhage in an Egyptian mummy. Virchows Archiv 127:423-429.
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Parsche, F. and A. Nerlich. 1995. Presence of drugs in different tissues of an Egyptian mummy. Fresenius'. Journal of Analytical Chemistry 352:380-384.
Sachs, H. and P. Kintz. 1998. Testing for drugs in hair, critical review of chromatographic procedures since 1992. Journal of Chromatography (B) 713:147-161.
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Sorenson, J.L. 1998. Bibliographia Pre-Columbiana. Pre-Columbiana 1(1&2):143-154.
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Was Columbus 15,000 years too late? - Congress report, October 12 - 13, 2013
Maize Diffused to India before Columbus Came to America by Carl Johannessen (video)
Maize in the hands of Hindu temple deities – an indigenous concept of iconography, November 16, 2013
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1969. A French Origin for the “Beehive” Structures of Ungava? Anthropological Journal of Canada, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 16-21. Ottawa: Anthropological Association of Canada.
1970. The Development and Distribution of the Blowgun. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 662-688. Washington: Association of American Geographers.
1971. Diffusion versus Independent Development: The Bases of Controversy. Chapter One in: Carroll L. Riley, J. Charles Kelly, Campbell W. Pennington, and Robert L. Rands, eds., Man Across the Sea: Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts, pp. 5-53 + combined bibliography. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
1977. “Dempa” ka soretomo “Dokuritsu Hattatsu” ka: Kokokara Ronso ga Hajimatta [Japanese translation by Takehiko Furuta]. Chapter 4 in: Carroll L. Riley, J. Charles Kelly, Campbell W. Pennington, and Robert L. Rands, eds., Wajin mo Taiheiyo o Watatta: Korombus ijen no Amerika Hakken [The Japanese also Crossed the Pacific: The Discovery of America before Columbus; selected chapters from Man Across the Sea and other sources], pp. 119-217 + ca. 7 pp. in combined bibliography. Tokyo: Souseiki Publishers (re-issued ca. 1988 by Hachiman Shoten).
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1986. An Alphabetical Inscription from Navajo Mountain, Arizona, and the Theories of Barry Fell. In: Anne Poore, ed., By Hands Unknown: Papers on Rock Art and Archaeology in Honor of James G. Bain, Papers of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, Vol. 12, pp. 18-30. Albuquerque, NM: Albuquerque Archaeological Society Press.
1991. Further Information on the Geography of the Blowgun and Its Implications for Early Transoceanic Contacts. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 89-102. Washington: Association of American Geographers.
1992. Asian Contacts with the Americas in Pre-Columbian Times: The Principal Proposals. In: special issue of NEARA Journal, Vol. 26, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 62-68. Pembroke, NH: New England Antiquities Research Association.
1992. Hypotheses of Mediterranean/Southwest [Asian] Influences on New World Cultures. In: special issue of NEARA Journal, Vol. 26, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 82-85. Pembroke, NH: New England Antiquities Research Association.
1993. Foreword. In: William R. McGlone, Phillip M. Leonard, James L. Guthrie, Rollin W. Gillespie, and James P. Whittall, Jr., Ancient American Inscriptions: Plow Marks or History? pp. ix-xii + ca. 1 p. of combined references. Sutton, MA: Early Sites Research Society.
1993. Remarks on the Colorado/Oklahoma Petroglyphs. In: Donald Cyr, ed., The Eclectic Epigrapher, Stonehenge Viewpoint, Issues 99-100, p. 72. Santa Barbara: Stonehenge Viewpoint. [also as FARMS Reprint, 16 pp. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.
1993. Before Columbus: The Question of Early Transoceanic Interinfluences. BYU Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 245-271. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University.
1998. Dyestuffs and Possible Early Southwestern Asian/South American Contacts. In Across before Columbus? Evidence for Transoceanic Contact with the Americas prior to 1492, Don Y. Gilmore and Linda S. McElroy, eds., pp. 141-149. Edgecomb, ME: The New England Antiquities Research Association NEARA Publications. [revision of: 1993, Dyestuffs and Possible Early Southwestern Asian/South American Contacts. In: special section, “America Before Columbus,” Linda S. McElroy and Donald Y. Gilmore, eds., NEARA Journal, Vol. 28, Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 31-38. Pembroke, NH: New England Antiquities Research Association.
1998. Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Contacts: What Is the Evidence? In: special issue of Journal of the West on pre-Columbian contacts, ed. by Vine Deloria, Jr., Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 11-18. Manhattan, KN: Journal of the West.
1998. Introduction: Early Watercraft and Navigation in the Pacific. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2, pp. 3-8. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society West.
More on Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *Wangkang and *Kumadjang, the Americas, and India. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 1, Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 78-87. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society West.
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The Jômon of Neolithic Japan: Early Ocean-Goers. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 1, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 158-163. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2000. Early Migration and Diffusion, and a Global Ecumene? Migration & Diffusion – An International Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 55-60. Vienna: Odyssee-Verlag-Wien.
2000. Confessions of a Cultural Diffusionist. Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Vol. 26, pp. 171-178. Austin: University of Texas Press.
2000. The Norse in the North Atlantic: An Overview. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 2-21. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2002. Romeo H. Hristov, Santiago Genovés T., and _____. Una figurilla china de San Francisco Huehutlán, Oaxaca. Cuadernos Americanos Nueva Época, Vol. 6, No. 96, pp. 123-131. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónima de México.
2002. Nicotine and Cocaine in Egyptian Mummies and THC in Peruvian Mummies: A Review of the Evidence and of Scholarly Reaction. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 297-313. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2002. Archaeological Hints of Pre-Columbian Plantains in the Americas. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 314-316. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2003. Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Contacts: The Present State of the Evidence. NEARA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 4-8. Pembroke, NH: New England Antiquities Research Association.
2003-2004. More on Nicotine and Cocaine in Egyptian Mummies: A Précis of Recent Articles. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 3, Nos. 1-3, pp. 45-49. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2003-2004. Jômon Penetration into the Pacific and Historical Japanese Drift Voyages: Additional Material. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 3, Nos. 1-3, pp. 39-42. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2004. No Plague in the Land? Infectious Diseases and Their Implications for the Pre-Columbian-Transoceanic-Contacts Controversy. Migration & Diffusion – An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 19, pp. 6-31. Vienna: Odyssee-Verlag-Wien.
2005-2007. Availability of Wild Foods and Water during Ocean Voyages: A Bibliographic Essay. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 3, No. 4/ Vol. 4, Nos. 1 and 2, pp. 213-220. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society
2005-2007. Phytolith and Other Evidence of the Antiquity of Musa in Asia, Africa, and America: A Review of Recent Literature. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 3, No. 4/Vol.4, Nos. 1&2, pp. 221-224. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2006-2007. Pre-Columbiana/A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts: Its Aims, Content, and History, Pts. 1-3. Screenings: The Oregon Archaeological Society Newsletter, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp. 1-2; Vol. 55, No. 11, pp. 1-3; Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 4-5. Portland, OR: The Oregon Archaeological Society. [repr. 2008-2010, Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 4, Nos. 3&4/Vol. 5, No.1, pp. 51-59.
2006. Qui a découvert l’Amérique? Interdits scientifiques et “politiquement correct”: Politique et hypothèses des influences trans-océaniques précolombiennes. Diplomatie 24: 74-81. Lambesc, France: Areion.
2007. George F. Carter, 1912-2004. Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, Vol. 26, pp. 27-49. London: Continuum, for the Commission on the History of Geographical Thought of the International Geographical Union and the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science.
2007. Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Contacts: The Context of Alleged Old World Inscriptions. Epigraphic Society Occasional Publications 25, pp. 13-17. Danvers, MA. Epigraphic Society.
2007. Genesis, Genes, Germs, and Geography: The Implications of Genetic and Human-Disease Distributions for Founding and Later Old World Entries into the Americas. In Proceedings of the International Science Conference, Science in Archaeology, co-chairs Alison T. Stenger and Alan L. Schneider, ed. Brian F. Harrison, pp. 100-133. [Portland, OR]: Institute for Archaeological Studies.
2008. Water as Barrier or Water as Highway: How Feasible Were Pre-1492 Transoceanic Crossings? In Flowing Through Time: Exploring Archaeology through Humans and Their Aquatic Environment, ed. Larry Steinbrenner, Beau Cripps, Metaxia Georgopoulos, and Jim Carr, pp. 68-74. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Chacmool Conference. Calgary, Alberta: The Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary.
2008-2010. Possible Jômon/Valdivia Connections with West Mexico and Southern California. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 4, Nos. 3&4, Vol. 5, No.1, pp. 37-38. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2012. A “Catechism” for the Pre-Columbian-Transoceanic-Contacts Debate. NEARA Journal, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 43-47. Edgecomb, ME: New England Antiquities Research Association. [available at http://www.neara.org/images/what/46-1_Jett.pdf; repr. 2016, 50th-anniversary issue, NEARA Journal, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 43-45.]
2011-2014. 1762 “Cherokee Writing” on Gorgets Is Actually Part of the British Royal Arms. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 5, Nos. 2-4/Vol. 6. No. 1, pp. 156-158. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society. [editor-reviewed]
2011-2014. “Misspellings” and Unattested Signs: Do They Invalidate Inscriptions or Can They Confirm Them? Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 5, Nos. 2-4/Vol. 6. No. 1, pp. 159-165. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society. [repr. 2018, Epigraphic Society Occasional Papers 30: i.p.]
2011-2014. Other Reports of Knotted-String Records in the Marquesas and Elsewhere. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 5, Nos. 2-4/Vol. 6. No. 1, pp. 182-183. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2011-2014. Evidence for the Natural Transoceanic Dispersal of Cottons (Gossypium): A Review. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 5, Nos. 2-4/Vol. 6. No. 1, pp. 251-254. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2011-2014. Molecular Genetics and the Pre-Columbian Spread of Sweetpotato (Ipomea batatas) into Oceania: A Review. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 5, Nos. 2-4/Vol. 6. No. 1, pp. 255-257. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2011-2014. Virologic and Genetic Evidence of a Connection between Jômon Japan and Ecuador/Colombia: A Brief Review. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 5, Nos. 2-4/Vol. 6. No. 1, pp. 263-266. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2011-2014. Article Reviews. Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts, Vol. 5, Nos. 2-4/Vol. 6. No. 1, pp. 273-311. Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society.
2013. Foreword. In Lacquer across the Oceans: Independent Invention or Diffusion? Celia Heil, pp. ix-x. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris.
2014. Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Influences: Far-Out Fantasy, Unproven Possibility, or Undeniable Reality? Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 35-74.
2016. Columbus-Come-Lately: An Overview and Update of the Ancient-Transoceanic-Contacts Controversy. EdgeScience No. 28, cover, pp. 6-13. Charlottesville, VA: Society for Scientific Exploration.
2017. Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. xx + 508 pp.