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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By 150 BC Greeks Had a Mechanical Computer to Give a Direct Reading of Latitude

“The astronomical observations were set into an early type of astrolabe which, combined with the cross staff for measuring the elevation of the midday sun or other celestial objects at the time of their meridional passage, yielded a direct reading of latitude. By 150 B.C. a mechanical computer had been added to the navigational equipment, which could now perform the operations of the astrolabe merely by cranking bronze gears and matching dials. The remains of one of these instruments now rest in the National museum in Athens, recovered from an ancient wreck by divers. The manner of operation of these highly technical instruments is now known to us and may be found by consulting the journals that deal with the history of science.” –Fell, 110.

Ancient Navigators Always Knew the Location of the Pole Star

“Ancient navigators knew always where the true polestar, and after the third century BC we have maps showing the position of the celestial south pole also, proving that navigators were then crossing the equator in the southern parts of the Pacific Ocean.” –Fell, 110. And yet, over a millennium and a half later, Galileo and Copernicus faced the wrath of the papacy for attempting to recover a small bit of the knowledge that was common knowledge among the ancients.

Ancient Times Much More Advanced Than Columbus-Ramses’ Ships 10,000 Miners to Sumatra

“As to the relative sizes and strengths of ancient ships in comparison with those used by Columbus, medieval Europe of 1492 was in a state of nautical skill that ancients would have regarded as benighted.  Columbus’ whole expedition could mount only 88 men, carried on three vessels of which two were only 50 feet in length, about the size of a small Boston fishing boat. Contrast that with the Pharaohs of the Ramesside dynasty, 1200 BC, who could mount expeditions of 10,000 miners across the Indian Ocean to the gold=bearing lands of South Africa and Sumatra.  Julius Caesar’s triremes carried 200 men, yet he found his ships outmatched in size, height, and seaworthiness by those of maritime Celts.” –Fell, 110.

Roman Embassy in China Second Century AD

“Chinese Han Court records….refer to Roman embassies in the second century AD….The validity of the Han Court records is unimpeachable, from the recorded dates and the names of the Roman emperor as given in the Chinese archives precisely match the western records.” –Fell, 104.

Shipping Contract Between Greece and Spain

Dr. Fell includes a translated transcript of a shipping contract between a Greek merchant named Makarios and a skipper of Cadiz named Nara, both of whom have signed the contract on the back. It was found near Serreta de Alcy, Spain, and consists of a lead lamina written on both sides. It is a curious fact that even at the early date its script implies (about the sixth century BC) the conditions less favorable to the hirer are set out in smaller print, on the back of the contract! The alphabet employed here is Greek, but the language of the contract is Phoenician.” –Fell, 104.

Monhegan Island, Maine: “Ships From Phoenicia, Cargo Platform”

“The periodic arrival of Phoenician ships on the New England coast is attested by the Ogam inscriptions on Monhegan Island, of the coast of Maine. [Picture on p. 58].” –Fell, 100. “The inscription reads from right to left (L)-NG-B-T B F-N-C C-D-H-H L-B-D, apparently to be translated as:

‘Ships from Phoenicia, Cargo Platform,’

The island having a flat horizontal surface of rock… The occurrence of a supposedly Norse word (long-bata, i,e., longboat or ship) parallels other Norse words and personal names found on Celt Iberian steles, and suggests that Norsemen were abroad long before the Viking age.” –Fell, 58.

Inferred Transatlantic Trade By Carthaginians 500 BC to 179 BC

Barry Fell writes, bases on the inferences of what is now known regarding the transatlantic trade patterns of traveling west on the trade winds to America and east on the prevailing westerlies, and the archaeological finds, after 500 BC and until 179 BC: “The conquest of Egypt by Darius I in 525 BC and the successive rise of the Greek and Roman empires effectively closed the eastern Mediterranean to Carthaginian shipping. Carthage retaliated by closing the straits of Gibraltar to all European mariners. Under the guise of supposed Spanish and North African trade, Carthaginian merchants exploited the North Atlantic resources; bring to Cadiz the copper of the Celt Iberian settlements of North America, and the tin of Cornwall, to provide the raw materials of a bronze industry, whose products were re-exported to Britain, Gaul, North America, and West Africa. The Celts of New England obtained a share of the American imports by supplying furs and hides, both of which the Carthaginians re-exported to the eastern Mediterranean as supposed products of Gaul, the furs even reaching India. By the time, the Romans conquered Spain and Carthage they had adequate alternate sources of these materials, and they took no interest in overseas shipping, having no merchant navy. The North American trade dwindled, the last phases presumably being operated by the maritime Celts of Brittany until their conquest by Caesar in 55 B.C. For 400 years after the battle of Actium in 31 B.C. the Romans had no navy, since they had no rivals, and the memory of America apparently was lost. By 200 A.D. geographers believed that a voyage westward from Spain would lead to India and China, and this was the inheritance of Columbus.” Fell, 106, 107.

After Rome’s Conquests, American Settlements Left On Their Own

And so, after Rome, that monster nation that crushed all others, conquered the Celts and other sea-faring peoples, having no need for a navy themselves, connection with America from Europe was cut off shortly before the birth of Christ, and the memory of America faded from Britain, Tarshish, and Carthage, and other areas. The settlements in America of the Celts, Phoenicians, Iberians, Libyans, and Egyptians were on their own, and went into decline. They apparently intermarried, and by the time, Columbus came 1,400 years later, he found only what came to be known as Indians. Only today through their alphabets, languages, inscriptions, sacred writings, temples, and archeological finds is the story of ancients European and North African settlements in America before Christ being painstakingly pieced together.

Nations Can Fall Suddenly

Nations and empires can fall suddenly. Protestant countries such as Poland and Ireland have become strongholds of Catholicism.

America, the greatest known civilization that we know of today, because of its moral depravity and apostasy, is beginning to collapse. Rome is engulfing it, the Image of the Beast is being set up, and national apostasy will be followed by national ruin-very soon, even before the soon coming of Jesus. It does not take long for a great civilization to collapse. Babylon fell in one night, the night the divine hand wrote Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin on the wall as the Medes were closing in on the temple palace. 

Babylon the Great will fall in one hour, declares Scripture in Revelation 18:19, indicating an extremely short time. We must build on the sure foundation of the true Christ and eternity.

The Evidence is Abundant That European and North African Settlements Stretched Across North America

Barry Fell, Harvard professor, with Harvard scholarly rigor, has his 312-page book crammed with pictures of inscriptions, ancient alphabets, and far too much technical archeological material to detail here. But suffice it to say, that from New England to California to the American Southwest and Heartland, Celtic, Iberian, Phoenician, Norse, Basque, Libyan, and Egyptian peoples had explored and settled America long before Christ was born.

Archaeology and Linguistics Have Overturned The Theory That Europeans Were Late Comers to America

Why is this important? Because the theories advanced by various groups that the American Indians were somehow the original settlers on North America is a moot point. Some Indians, such as the Algonquians, came from ancestors from across the Atlantic. Some, such as the Zuni in the Southwest, have Libyan-based languages. Some in the Southwest, such as the Pima have a Semitic language, indicating Phoenician or Hebrew origins. The archaeological evidence is overwhelming and European and North African peoples explored and settled America hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, overturning the arguments set loose in the last forty years in academia that the Europeans were latecomers to America.

Spanish Mexicans Came 2,000 Years After the Semitic Pima and Libyan Zuni; America Buys Southwest and California

As for the Mexicans, they were late arrivals indeed, coming over 2,000 years after the Semitic Pima and Libyan Zuni arrived in the Southwest. Then Santa Ana recognized Texan Independence in 1836 in return for Sam Houston’s release of him. In April 1846, Mexican troops captured a small unit of the US General Zachary Taylor’s troops, leading the US to declare war on Mexico. The war lasted until the victory of the US in 1848 and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in which Mexico ceded to the US all Mexican territory north of the Rio Grande, the area of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California, for which the US paid $15 million. In 1853, the US purchased a tract of land in what is now southern Arizona and New Mexico, the Gadsden Purchase, for $10 million.

The argument used by the illegals that this land is still theirs, and should be retaken by millions of Mexicans flooding north, and called Aztlan, a new Mexican nation, would be analogous to France suddenly reclaiming the Louisiana Purchase, the land stretching from the Mississippi to the Rockies and from Canada to Mexico.

Rome Asserts Her Claim to America Based on Columbus – But the Celts Were Living Here 2,000 Years Before Columbus

Why is it significant? Because Rome has asserted her claim to America, based on the discovery by Christopher Columbus, a Roman Catholic. The knights of Columbus are her militant arms of knighthood to make America Catholic and assert Rome’s claim over the nation. However, now we know that not only were the Norsemen here four hundred years before Columbus, but the Celts, Iberians, Carthaginians, Libyans, Egyptians, and Phoenicians were here, living here-some of them 2,500 years ago. So Rome’s claim to the nation based on being here first holds no validity.

The Real Issue Is Whether Protestantism Will Bear Sway, or Whether Romanism Will Triumph

Because it demonstrates further, and on another note, that the issue today is not an issue so much as who was here first, or the race of the group. The issue is that these lands are part of the Protestant nation called America, and not part of an emerging Catholic Mexican nation of Aztlan. The real issue is whether true Protestantism, based on the Word of God, will bear sway and rule, or whether apostate Protestantism and Rome will rule. 

It would be wonderful if all of the massive invasion of Roman Catholicism’s millions became staunch Protestants and embraced the Protestant vision of America. However, reality and prophecy point out that it will happen the other way. Protestantism will (and has already) joined with the papal power and spiritualism to ultimately crush out liberty of conscience and all true Protestantism.

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