Unearthing Ancient America: The Lost Sagas of Conquerors, Castaways, and Scoundrels

By Frank Joseph

Does Colorados Grand Canyon hide an ancient city found by a Smithsonian Institution photographer?Did the Vikings beat Columbus to the New World using a fiber-opticnavigational instrument?Who built a colossal water reservoir in Iowa long before the firstEuropean settlers arrived?What secret have the Giants of the California Desert preserved formore than a thousand years?These are just some of the intriguing questions posed and answered by expert researchers in Unearthing Ancient America. They go on to tackle a broad variety of archaeological enigmas shunned as too heretical forconsideration by conventional scholarsa Roman figurine found off the New Jersey coast, North African gold in Illinois from a long-vanished kingdom, an Egyptian knife removed from a centuries-old tree in California, a fifth century Christian church in Connecticut, a prehistoric harbor underwater in the Bahamas, Easter Islands cultural connections with pre-modern Japan, and voyagers to Maine from Stone Age Scotland.Unearthing Ancient America 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 magazineGunnar Thompson, PhD, author of American DiscoveryNobuhiro Yoshida, language professor from the University of KyushuWilliam Donato, the worlds leading authority on the Bimini RoadDavid Hatcher Childress, founder of The World Explorers Club and head of Adventures Unlimited Press.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Oct 15, 2008
• ISBN: 9781601639325

Frank Joseph

Frank Joseph was the editor in chief of Ancient American magazine from 1993-2007. He is the author of several books, including Before Atlantis, Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America, The Lost Civilization of Lemuria, and The Lost Treasure of King Juba. He lives in the Upper Mississippi Valley.