America B. C. - Ancient Settlers in the New World [Paperback]

Barry Fell (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0934666555 | ISBN-13: 978-0934666558 | Publication Date: January 2, 2008

CBS' 60 Minutes program of 9/15/02: KENNEWICK MAN -- the discovery of a 9000-year-old skeleton - not only seriously questions the notion that Indians inhabited America first but is causing an old-fashioned science-versus-religion battle. While scientists are fighting for the right to study the bones Indians say their religion requires they be buried immediately - so reports 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl ... America B.C.(Barry Fell) was uncovering this some 27 years ago! When Barry Fell's AMERICA B.C. first exploded on the literary scene it was acclaimed by critics as" ...The first major work to penetrate the mysteries of ancient European inhabitants in America" and its support has grown even stronger over the years. It has long been taken for granted that the first European visitors to American shores either sailed with Columbus in 1492 or with Norseman like Lief Erickson a full five centuries earlier. But the history of America before that date has remained so far lost in native Indian legends. This was the case until the late Harvard Professor Barry Fell uncovered evidence including astonishing new discoveries to replace those legends with myth-shattering fact. Illuminating authoritative and enhanced with over 100 pictures AMERICA B.C. describes American inscriptions some of them known for a century or more that turn out to have been written in ancient scripts of a type only recently deciphered in Europe or North Africa. Thus the truth has slowly come to light ancient history is inscribed upon the bedrock and buried stone buildings of America and the only hands that could have inscribed it were those of ancient people. America as we now realize is a treasure house of records of man's achievement upon the high seas in bygone ages. Even more so are our inscribed rocks and tablets a heritage from a forgotten era of colonization. They tell us of settlers who came from the Old World and who remained to become founding fathers of some of the Amerindian nations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 370 pages
• Publisher: Artisan Publishers (January 2, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934666555
• ISBN-13: 978-0934666558
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #761,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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52 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars from the book..., December 5, 2005

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L. Hoffman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: America B. C. - Ancient Settlers in the New World (Paperback)

Author: Barry Fell
CBS' 60 Minutes program of 9/15/02: KENNEWICK MAN -- the discovery of a 9,000-year-old skeleton - not only seriously questions the notion that Indians inhabited America first, but is causing an old-fashioned science-versus-religion battle. While scientists are fighting for the right to study the bones, Indians say their religion requires they be buried immediately - so reports 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl. ... America B.C.(Barry Fell) was uncovering this some 27 years ago!

This highly and widely acclaimed book provides substantial evidence that anglo Europeans were living and trading in America 4500 years before Columbus.

When Barry Fell's AMERICA B.C. first exploded on the literary scene it was acclaimed by critics as " ...The first major work to penetrate the mysteries of ancient European inhabitants in America" and its support has grown even stronger over the years. It has long been taken for granted that the first European visitors to American shores either sailed with Columbus in 1492, or with Norseman like Lief Erickson a full five centuries earlier. But the history of America before that date has remained, so far, lost in native Indian legends.

This was the case until the late Harvard Professor Barry Fell uncovered evidence, including astonishing new discoveries, to replace those legends with myth-shattering fact. Illuminating, authoriative and enhanced with over 100 pictures, AMERICA B.C. describes American inscriptions, some of them known for a century or more, that turn out to have been written in ancient scripts of a type only recently deciphered in Europe or North Africa.

Thus the truth has slowly come to light, ancient history is inscribed upon the bedrock and buried stone buildings of America, and the only hands that could have inscribed it were those of ancient people. America, as we now realize, is a treasure house of records of man's achievement upon the high seas in bygone ages. Even more so are our inscribed rocks and tablets a heritage from a forgotten era of colonization. They tell us of settlers who came from the Old World and who remained to become founding fathers of some of the Amerindian nations.

"Now, thanks to the genuis of a single man...We must include in our American Heritage - Fighting Celts from Spain...daring Semitic Seafarers from Carthage, Libya and Egypt. Who knows how many others will be added before the end of Barry Fell's epic voyage into the past!" - Reader's Digest
"A stunning book...an authenic landmark...America B.C. destroys the premise of every previous text." - Peter Tompkins, author of Secrets of the Great Pyramid

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most amazing book I've ever read., March 2, 2008

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John Knight - See all my reviews

This review is from: America B. C. - Ancient Settlers in the New World (Paperback)

I had heard much about Dr. Fell's work on the internet, but this was the first of his books that I've actually read.

I'm stunned.

He was amazingly thourough, and amazingly polite and patient with all the criticisms and insults leveled at him by "experts" in the field. It's obvious now that the reason they insulted him so much rather than disputing his findings with solid facts and reasoning is that they know he was right and they were BORN wrong.

Of course he MAY have made errors [and this is not an inference that he did], but his detractors got so caught up in ad hominems that no matter how seriously they might finally take is work, they've lost all credibility on this subject.

God Bless Dr. Fell for being the pioneer with all the arrows in his back--and for proving that the "Celts" [or "Fenicians" as they called themselves] colonized America LONG before Columbus got here. Wouldn't it be nice if some of his critics managed to prove that much of this Ogam script pre-dates Jesus--something that today's scholars will admit only when nobody else is listening?

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars America B. C., February 10, 2008

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I had read much about Barry Fell - he's rather controversial among archaeologists - and thought I should find out more about him before writing him off. He writes a great deal about Ogam, the Celtic inscriptions found in Europe and British Isles as well as North and South America. I found him rather convincing in a majority of his materials. He gives examples of structures and inscriptions found in the "old world," then goes on to compare similar ones found in the Western Hemisphere. Scholars with open minds seem to support many of his conclusions, but criticize his "translations" of ancient writings. In my mind that means his theory is correct, but some of his details are questioned. I recommend anyone interested in ancient history to first read what others say about Fell, then read America B. C. I found it fascinating and certainly challenging to the status quo.