Who Were the Original Immigrants To America?
The Archaeological Evidence Regarding the Immigrants to America
Hundreds of Years Before the Birth of Christ


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 Celt Iberian Pima Speak Semitic Language

This raises a most interesting observation. These Celt Iberian peoples of the Pima tribe, of the American Southwest, speak a Semitic language [the same family group linguistically as the Hebrews, who spoke Northwest Semitic, as more recent Hebraists such as Thomas Lambdin designate it, which includes Aramaic, and Canaanite (Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Hebrew); or as the older great Hebraist, Gesenius, designates it, Middle Semitic, to which belongs the Hebrew of the Old Testament and Phoenician, with Punic in Carthage and its colonies)[, have creation accounts with Semitic terms, have the Flood account, with a cognate Semitic term.

It is not possible, that when the Ten Northern tribes of Israel were taken into captivity by the Assyrians, that some may have been sold into slavery to the traders on the ships of Tarshish, taken to Iberia, or Spain, and from thence taken by the magnificent ships of Tarshish by the Celt Iberian-Punic peoples to their colonies in North America, and eventually wound up in the American Southwest? Their language and sacred texts certainly could indicate that. Alternatively, the Semitic could be derived from Phoenician, which is also Semitic, from the Phoenician traders, or both.

500 Inscribed Stones in Susquehanna Valley-Celt Iberian, Phoenician, and Basque Grave Markers 800-600 BC

There are 500 inscribed stones collected in the Susquehanna valley by Dr. William Strong comprising Celt Iberian, Phoenician, and Basque grave markers dates to about 800-600 BC. (p. 170).

Caesar Describes Powerful Celtic Sea power of Britain and Brittany-Much more Powerful Than Roman Navy

“The Celts in considerable numbers did in fact settle here, particularly in New England.” Fells, p. 125. Were the Celts great seafarers? Absolutely, “most of Book III of Caesar’s De Bello Gallico is devoted to the greatest naval battle he was ever called upon to mount. And his adversaries? None other than the Celts of Brittany, whose fleet was swelled by the arrival of a flotilla they had summoned from their allies in Britain. The combined Gallic and British naval armament comprised an immensely powerful force, numbering 220 ships, all larger than and superior in construction to those of the opposing Roman navy under Admiral Brutus.

Celtic Ships Had Capability to Cross Atlantic

“These Celtic ships, Caesar says, were so soundly constructed that they could outride tempestuous or contrary winds upon the very ocean itself without sustaining injury. [De Bello Gallico, books III, XIII, 1.]  It is clear that these fine vessels, which towered over the Roman galleys, had the capability of crossing the Atlantic Ocean vasto atque aperto mari, ‘upon the vast open seas,’ as Caesar indicates.” Fells, 112.

Caesar ‘waxes almost lyrical as he describes the splendid fleet of swan ships, high-prowed and graceful, that now rounded the headland to close in upon the Roman galleys in the roadstead below the island where Caesar was to watch the sea fight.” Fells, 115.

Celtic Ships Vastly Superior to Roman

“The Celtic vessels had tall masts whose yards and cordage carried sails sewn from beaten hides, their leather far more serviceable in the rough Atlantic storms than the Egyptian linen of the Roman vela. These ships were ships propelled solely by wind and by the skilled seamanship of skippers who knew how to harness the air currents to their will, even sailing into the wind, to Caesar’s bewilderment. Because no Celt would demean himself by rowing an oar, the thwarts on which a Roman skipper would expect to seat his galley slaves were replaced in the ships of the Gauls by far stronger and better-chosen beams. These were ships bound firmly against the buckling action of ocean rollers by iron chains, where the Roman galleys had only ropes to tie the timbers together. The Celtic anchors were made entirely of iron.” Fells, 115, 116.

Romans Won Through Grappling Hooks and Hand-to-Hand Combat

The roman navy was completely outmatched by the Celts, but they had the tactical surprise of a tactic they had learned from fighting the Carthaginians-grappling hooks. When the Celts saw what was happening, they turned to flee, but the wind died, the Romans boarded, 200 to a trireme, and engaged in their specialty-hand to hand combat on stationary decks. Thus the Romans, though outclassed, defeated the superior naval vessels of the Celts.

Bronze weapons are found all through Ohio and Wisconsin that conform to well-known European and North African patterns.

The Ships of Tarshish [Spain] Bring Voyagers Who Inscribe Message at Union, NH

Somewhere around 700 to 600 BC, at Union, New Hampshire, there are “excellently preserved Tartessian [Tarshish] letters. Under the outline carving of a hull appears a single line of Tartessian Punic, reading from right to left to yield

“Voyagers From Tarshish

This Stone Proclaims.” –Fells, 100

Ships of Tarshish Dominate For Hundreds of Years-Major Shipping in Solomon’s Day to Ezekiel’s Time

The term “ships of Tarshish” occurs at least seven times in Scripture, the word Tarshish occurring 24 times. The first mention of Tarshish is in Genesis 10:4, which records that Javan was one of the sons of Japheth, and one of Javan’s sons was Tarshish. 1 Chronicles 1:7 records the same genealogy. In Solomon’s time ‘every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.” 2 Chronicles 9:21.

Ships of Tarshish Going Strong in David’s Day-1100 BC

In the time of 1100 to 1011 BC David wrote, “Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with the east wind.” Psalm 48:7. Thus, the ships of Tarshish were of international renown for hundreds and hundreds of years. The ships of Tarshish were still going strong in Ezekiel’s day four hundred years later in the sixth century BC.

God Declared That He Would Send His Servants to Tarshish

God declares in Isaiah 66:19 regarding what He was going to do to those who involved themselves in abominations: “And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, to the isles afar off, that have not heard My fame, neither have seen My glory; and they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.” Isaiah 66:19.  

Tarshish The Merchant of Tyre

Ezekiel 27: 12,13, in the lamentation over Tyre, which was located just north of Israel, records, “Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

The Slave Trade

“Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.” Tarshish, or Tartessus, in Hispania Baetica, or Spain was a colony of Tyre, showing what a vast reach Tyre had. Javan is Jania, the Greeks. Tubal and Meschech are the Tibareni and Moschi of the ancients between the Black and Caspian Seas. (Keil and Delitzsche, Commentary on the Old Testament, vol, 9.p. 224.) The Greeks carried forward the slave trade most vigorously.

Children of Judah Sold to Greeks

Joel 3:6 records how “The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.” Here is another wave, this time of Judah, which was sold to the great sea traders, the Grecians, who in turn could well have sold them to the merchants of the ships of Tarshish, who could have taken them anywhere in Spain, France, Britain, Ireland, or America. Jonah attempted to flee to Tarshish. Jonah 1:2.

Hebrew Place names in Cornwall Where Hebrew Slaves Worked the Tin Mines

It has been noted that even the name Britain appears to have Hebrew roots, being derived from the Hebrew brit, or covenant, or “the land of the covenant.” H.M.S. Richards Sr., often spoke of how the areas of the tin mines in Cornwall and other such places, had Hebrew place names, indicating that Hebrew slaves may well have been sold there to work the tin mines. Britain certainly, of all the European countries, developed a common law based on the Ten Commandments, and became the home of freedom through the centuries.

Danmark

It is also true that Denmark, in its native tongue, is Danmark, and may likewise have been a colony of the lost tribe of Dan. The people of Danmark came repeatedly in waves of immigration to Britain.

Vast Commerce and Travel in Ancient Times

It is now recognized by the scholarly world, particularly the Biblical scholarly world that there was a whole lot more commerce and travel in ancient times than those adhering to the evolutionary scheme would have you believe. There were great civilizations that then collapsed and went into eclipse for hundreds of years, even thousands of years. Such is the case of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, Ethiopia, the Celts and the people of Spain, the Aztecs, and the Mayas. There used to be a great civilization in India. My wife and I have seen the great buildings from that time.

The Papacy Brought On Great Darkness in the Dark Ages

One of the greatest periods of darkness was the Dark Ages, when the papacy ruled the Western world, and even the knowledge about the use of the zero was lost, and the compass and gunpowder would have to be recovered from the Arabs and Chinese.

Three Centuries Before Christ Greeks Knew the Circumference of the World

 By contrast, in 239 BC Eratosthenes, in Greece, had calculated the circumference of the world as being about 28,000 miles, an error of excess of only 13 percent…. “This error was not so great as to forbid successful ocean crossing with a predicted landing point.” –Fell, 109, 110.

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