The History of Ancient America, Anterior to the Time of Columbus: Proving the Identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the Introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere By The Apostle St. ThomasJones, George
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The History of Ancient America, Anterior to the Time of Columbus: Proving the Identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the Introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere By The Apostle St. Thomas
Jones, George
America -- Antiquities; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Phoenician; Indians -- Origin
In the translation of the Sculpture of the Chief Altar at Copan, it
was shewn that the magic Art had _portrayed the identical act of
friendship_ leading to the safety of the Tyrians; and their Nation is
perfectly illustrated by the accessories upon the Altar,--and having
translated the Sculpture, we maintained (in humble submission to the
opinion of others) that the definition of the hieroglyphics on the
surface of the Altar was also arrived at,--upon the admitted ground of
argument that one but illustrated the other.
We have reserved a strong conclusive proof of _the correctness of the
date_ assigned for the Migration until this time,--and although not
necessary for evidence, yet it will (we believe) not fail to have its
due effect upon the critic. We will illustrate this proof in brief
chronological order: viz.--
606 B. C.] Voyage around the continent of Africa by the Tyrians.
585 B. C.] Commencement of the first Siege of Tyrus; the
mainland capital destroyed in the thirteenth year, and thence
became a vassal Nation.
515 B. C.] Restoration of Tyrus as a Nation, after seventy years
of vassalage from the beginning of the above siege, according to
Prophecy.
484 B. C.] Herodotus wrote his History of Egypt; in it he
mentions the great expedition around Africa in 606 B. C. by the
Tyrians; but that voyage only, therefore, _down to his time_
[viz., 484 B. C.] the Migration to the Western Hemisphere had not
been attempted, and he wrote only 152 years before the
Alexandrian Siege.
332 B. C.] Siege and destruction of Tyrus by the Macedonian.
Arrian makes no allusion to any migration to, or knowledge by the
Tyrians of, a Western Continent, at any time during the period
from Herodotus to the last Siege,--it is, therefore, a fair
deduction that none took place, nor was it known to that
period,--viz., 332 B. C.--but at that Siege, upon the authority
of the same author, many fugitive families were rescued (during
the storming of the capital) by the Sidonians.
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