Bat Creek Stone: At a Glance
The Bat Creek Stone is a controversial
artifact that was discovered during a mound
excavation in the 1800s near the mouth of Bat
Creek in Loudon County, Tennessee. The stone is
smaller than the size of an average cell phone. One
side of the stone has a polished appearance and
eight symbols are engraved into the center of the
stone.
Cyrus Thomas published in the Ethnology
Report that the inscription on the stone contained
Cherokee symbols. However, he later realized an
error in his logic. In his book, Cherokees in Pre-
Columbian Times, he stated that the symbols could
not possibly be Cherokee because the mound
where the stone was found was older than the
Cherokee alphabet. Due to his misinterpretation of
the symbols, many speculate the stone is a fraud.
The stone did not hit the spotlight until the
1970s when Professor Cyrus Gordon suggested
the inscription was most likely a form of Paleo-
Hebrew, an ancestor script to the current Box
Hebrew.
Religious groups, such as the Latter-Day
Saints, used the stone as proof that members of a
lost tribe of Israel were the ancestors of the Native
Americans. Even with the positive response of the
stone by the Latter-Day Saints, others still did not
believe it was authentic, including the
Smithsonian Institute.
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artifact that was discovered during a mound
excavation in the 1800s near the mouth of Bat
Creek in Loudon County, Tennessee. The stone is
smaller than the size of an average cell phone. One
side of the stone has a polished appearance and
eight symbols are engraved into the center of the
stone.
Cyrus Thomas published in the Ethnology
Report that the inscription on the stone contained
Cherokee symbols. However, he later realized an
error in his logic. In his book, Cherokees in Pre-
Columbian Times, he stated that the symbols could
not possibly be Cherokee because the mound
where the stone was found was older than the
Cherokee alphabet. Due to his misinterpretation of
the symbols, many speculate the stone is a fraud.
The stone did not hit the spotlight until the
1970s when Professor Cyrus Gordon suggested
the inscription was most likely a form of Paleo-
Hebrew, an ancestor script to the current Box
Hebrew.
Religious groups, such as the Latter-Day
Saints, used the stone as proof that members of a
lost tribe of Israel were the ancestors of the Native
Americans. Even with the positive response of the
stone by the Latter-Day Saints, others still did not
believe it was authentic, including the
Smithsonian Institute.
Bat Creek Stone: At a Glance
The Bat Creek Stone is a controversial
artifact that was discovered during a mound
excavation in the 1800s near the mouth of Bat
Creek in Loudon County, Tennessee. The stone is
smaller than the size of an average cell phone. One
side of the stone has a polished appearance and
eight symbols are engraved into the center of the
stone.
Cyrus Thomas published in the Ethnology
Report that the inscription on the stone contained
Cherokee symbols. However, he later realized an
error in his logic. In his book, Cherokees in Pre-
Columbian Times, he stated that the symbols could
not possibly be Cherokee because the mound
where the stone was found was older than the
Cherokee alphabet. Due to his misinterpretation of
the symbols, many speculate the stone is a fraud.
The stone did not hit the spotlight until the
1970s when Professor Cyrus Gordon suggested
the inscription was most likely a form of Paleo-
Hebrew, an ancestor script to the current Box
Hebrew.
Religious groups, such as the Latter-Day
Saints, used the stone as proof that members of a
lost tribe of Israel were the ancestors of the Native
Americans. Even with the positive response of the
stone by the Latter-Day Saints, others still did not
believe it was authentic, including the
Smithsonian Institute.
artifact that was discovered during a mound
excavation in the 1800s near the mouth of Bat
Creek in Loudon County, Tennessee. The stone is
smaller than the size of an average cell phone. One
side of the stone has a polished appearance and
eight symbols are engraved into the center of the
stone.
Cyrus Thomas published in the Ethnology
Report that the inscription on the stone contained
Cherokee symbols. However, he later realized an
error in his logic. In his book, Cherokees in Pre-
Columbian Times, he stated that the symbols could
not possibly be Cherokee because the mound
where the stone was found was older than the
Cherokee alphabet. Due to his misinterpretation of
the symbols, many speculate the stone is a fraud.
The stone did not hit the spotlight until the
1970s when Professor Cyrus Gordon suggested
the inscription was most likely a form of Paleo-
Hebrew, an ancestor script to the current Box
Hebrew.
Religious groups, such as the Latter-Day
Saints, used the stone as proof that members of a
lost tribe of Israel were the ancestors of the Native
Americans. Even with the positive response of the
stone by the Latter-Day Saints, others still did not
believe it was authentic, including the
Smithsonian Institute.
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| BN ID: | 2940013848641 |
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| Publisher: | POL Publishing |
| Publication date: | 11/01/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 76 |
| File size: | 328 KB |
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