by Dr. Youssef Mrouch by John White and Jim Leslie Originally published in the MES Journal This is a news summary of an internet article discovered by Jim Leslie. Our previous knowledge of Muslim diffusion was limited to the translations of Arabic inscriptions described in the excellent book Saga America published by Read More
by, Myron Paine, Ph.D. http://lenape-epic.blogspot.com/ SEE THE LENAPE FIRST CONCLUSIONS NORSE CATHOLICS have been in America for 1,000 years. Myron Paine has devoted 14 years of research to Norse Catholics in America. He started by making a hypothesis: During the Little Ice Age ancestors of the Lenape-speaking people walked, en masse, Read More
by Warren W. Dexter, FES, DFFMES, Elkhart, Indiana Originally published in The Midwestern Epigraphic Journal, Volume 17, Number 1, 2003 HODO or DOLMEN Just west of the WRITING ON STONE PROVINCIAL PARK in southern Alberta, Canada is located a wonderfully positioned DOLMEN appearing like a lighthouse that can be observed for miles. It Read More
by Cyclone Covey, DFMES, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C. Originally published in The Midwestern Epigraphic Journal, Volume 20, 2006. Comments on: Lawrence F. Athy, “Foreign Influences on the Priesthood & Nobility of Precolumbian America,” ESOP XVII (1983), 106-120 & “Beards in North America Before Columbus,” XIX (1990), 169-175. THESE SEMINAL ARTICLES did Read More
by Cyclone Covey, Ph.D. Originally published in Ancient American Magazine March/April 1994. In the 1830’s, soon after the forced removal of aboriginal tribes into Indian Territory, Chocktaw hunters roaming vast, vacant, forested hills came upon the mammoth runestone in an idyllic vale of Poteau, Mt. It had stood immemorially hidden in its remote Read More
by Joseph B. Mahan, Executive Director, Westville Village, Lumpkin, Georgia Originally published in The Midwestern Epigraphic Society Journal [Editor’s Note: The first Westville Symposium, the parent of ISAC, was held in 1972. The Dr. Joseph Mahan, DFMES story can be found documented in MEJ 9, 1995.] The Yuchi have been among the Read More
by Rick Hurd, “*REVELATION. The Angel of the Lord came unto me, James, on the first day of September, in the year eighteen hundred and fortyfive, and the light Shined about him above the brightness of the sun, and he showed unto me the plates of the sealed record, and he gave into my hands the Urim and Thummin. Read More
by, John J White, III, Beverley H. Moseley, Jr, and Cyclone Covey Originally published in the Midwestern Epigraphic Society Newsletter, Volume 18, Number 2. A leading objective of the MES founders was the reporting of new information and interpretations that would lead to a better understanding of Ohio, Ohio River Valley, and Midwestern ancient Read More