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October 2008
Unearthing Ancient America describes a medallion left in Michigan by Buddhist missionaries from India a thousand years ago, a 5th Century Christian church in Connecticut, the Grand Canyon's underground city, a Roman statuette washed up at New Jersey, secret maps of America Columbus used for his first voyage to the New World, an Inca skeleton in Norway's Viking grave, Florida's own Stonehenge, and thirty other articles by twenty-three investigators describing the impact made by overseas' visitors to our continent centuries before its official discovery. Illustrated with thirty original photographs, Unearthing Ancient America re-writes the textbooks by unveiling the lost prehistory of our country.

It contains a wealth of fresh, occasionally suppressed evidence documenting the tremendous impact made on our continent by overseas visitors hundreds and even thousands of years before Columbus. The disclosures presented here re-write the prehistory of our country and provide a dramatic panorama of the past you never imagined before.

The distinguished list of contributing writers to Unearthing Ancient America includes:

* Wayne May, founder and publisher of Ancient American magazine

* Gunnar Thompson, PhD, author of American Discovery

* Nobuhiro Yoshida, language professor from the University of Kyushu

* William Donato, the world's leading authority on the "Bimini Road"

* David Hatcher Childress, founder of The World Explorers Club and head of Adventures Unlimited Press


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About the Author

Frank Joseph became the editor-in-chief of Ancient American magazine when it was founded in 1993. His 20 books, which have been published in various languages throughout the world, include The Atlantis Encyclopedia, Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America, and Opening the Ark of the Covenant. A frequent radio talk-show guest, he has been interviewed by Shirley MacLaine, Art Bell, Jeff Rense, Rob McConnell, and numerous other broadcast hosts. His lecture appearances include presentations throughout Japan and Britain, including conventions and seminars with the Association for Research and Enlightenment (the Edgar Cayce organization). Joseph lives in Wisconsin with his wife and son.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 287 pages
  • Publisher: New Page Books; 1 edition (October 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 160163031X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1601630315
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #239,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Frank Joseph has been the editor-in-chief of "Ancient American" magazine since its debut in 1993. He is the author of twenty books about prehistory re-published in as many foreign languages, including "The Atlantis Encyclopedia", "Opening the Ark of the Covenant", and "Unearthing Ancient America". Joseph is a frequent guest speaker at various metaphysical and archaeological societies in the U.S. and abroad.

 

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36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars You're just a scholar trying to keep me down, aren't you?, March 29, 2009
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This review is from: Unearthing Ancient America: The Lost Sagas of Conquerors, Castaways, and Scoundrels (Paperback)
Included in "Unearthing Ancient America" are 37 articles ranging from Roman coins found off the coast of New Jersey to Vikings in Minnesota and Templars in Newfoundland. The articles themselves are very interesting, resulting in a good read for anybody who has an interest in ancient America. That's assuming they're not one of the "censors" keeping all of this information from the general public, of course!

The book is divided into a series of chapters, from Ancient Artifacts to Subterranean Mysteries and Underwater Discoveries. The subject matter is quite varied, with a couple of articles on copper-trading barons in the Great Lakes area, a Crystal Pyramid of Wisconsin's Rock Lake and various figurines and artifacts found either underwater or in deep caves in the Midwest. Thus, the reader never gets bored with one subject as the next article could be on something quite different (occasionally, there is a follow-up or supplementary article following the first one). For those who have only read, or are only familiar with the popular history of the country, most of these articles are quite intriguing, even as some offer more evidence for their theories than others.

Occasionally, the author of an article goes "way out there" and comes to some wild conclusions, but thankfully that's not very often. Most of the articles are interesting in their own way, all of them are short, but occasionally there is one that takes forever to wade through as the authors spend so much time detailing every little bit of their discovery and theories that they forget to actually make it interesting to the reader (with the exception of the small subset of people who might be as fascinated as they are with what they found).

Still, "Unearthing Ancient America" has a lot to recommend it. There is, of course, the occasional sniping at mainstream historians and scholars who want to keep all of this quiet (the introduction has most of this, though some of the articles do too), but most of the time they provide good detail on what the discovery is and what it could mean. It's fascinating stuff, and kept me interested as I made my way through the almost 300 pages of the book. Most of the articles are short and to the point, which makes picking the book up and reading in small segments very easy.

Keep an open mind when you're reading and you should enjoy it. Unless, of course, you're one of these vile censors who would love nothing more than to make sure the "standard" history of America is all that people know. If that is you, I would bet that Frank Joseph is willing to take you on one-on-one.

David Roy
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25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Ashamed to say I read it -- but I did, May 28, 2010
This review is from: Unearthing Ancient America: The Lost Sagas of Conquerors, Castaways, and Scoundrels (Paperback)
This is an unfootnoted, undocumented, unskeptical retelling of every rumor associated with ...

Stop. I'll begin again.

There are many reasons to accept that America had thriving connections and intercontinental trading partners well before the European voyages of discovery began -- and that these connections were largely with Asia.

This book does not offer any information on current research in any field. It accepts conspiracy theories as to the disappearance of critical evidence, it does not publish photographs for visual reference, and far too many of the accounts are "being kept confidential to protect the identities and/or the locations of the discoveries". The is akin to Penthouse Forum for antiquity hunters (without the alluring women, of course) -- you know, the stories begin: "I was trespassing that day, and I found something I'll never forget. I didn't take a photograph or make any kind of record of my findings, and now those findings have mysteriously vanished. But I'll always rememebr..."

My copy is going in the trash can.
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4.0 out of 5 stars unearthing ancient america, November 30, 2009
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Loved it, if anyone wants to hear about the difference of what they taught us in school and what they have found, documented then swept away this is a good book for the inquisitive at heart
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