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Minoan colonies in America?

Sounds unbelievable, but may be true. Numerous findings seem

to concede that the Minoans were keen navigators who crossed

the Atlantic. They created colonies even in Canada and exploited

local copper mines. All this before Columbus!Tassos Kafantaris

[email protected]

It has not been many years since I heard the Professor of the University of Patras Anthony

Kantaratos, talking specifically - about the possibility of ancient Greeks had arrived in

America, searching for new sources of metals.

I admit that I smiled then, thinking about all the other unlikely I had read about the ancient

Greeks in America, Australia or Japan. And I would keep this story in my subconscious, if not

learned about a recent bookThe Lost Empire of Atlantis ofGavin Menzies- which returned

resoundingly the issue and raised a host of discussion on the internet. Gavin Menzies, in his

book, initially follows the Minoan traces in Asia Minor, in Egypt, in Yemen, in India and

Ceylon- where the Sangam epics of the Tamil still speak about the magnificent ships of the

Greeks bringing gold and leave laden with pepper. Surprised by the museum findings

which vindicated Strabo and Ptolemy, the author not only considered the navigation secrets

held by the Minoans, but also where they found all those quantities of metals that they

traded. The copper mines of Cyprus as it is historically known could not even meet the

requirements of the Pharaohs. Yet the Minoans gave them bronze saws doped with tin to

cut the stone blocks of the pyramids. As was written in the records of the Acadian king

Skarga, the Minoan ships brought since 2350 BC tin from Spain and Britain. And then this

unlikely finding of 1450 BC at the Akrotirion in Santorini where did it come from?

Lasioderma serricorne, meaning larva of the tobacco leaf! Yes the smoke that we all knew

that first arrived in Europe in 16th century AD from the American continent. So, Menzies,

now turned west searching to find whether-and how-those intrepid sailors had not only

crossed the portals of Hercules, but had also arrived in the New World.

Minoans and Mycenaeans on the Atlantic coastThe roadmap that was unfolded in the rest of the book by this 72 years old former officer of

the British navy was not unprecedented: Two years ago, at the TV channel NET (watch video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtfCGg-o04A), and in the newspaper NEA(www.tanea.gr/politismos/article/?aid=4557236) , geology professor and member of the

Central Archaeological Council Margiolakos Elias, had supported the idea that our ancestors

had explored the coastal areas of Spain, France, Britain and Ireland in search of minerals and

perhaps had arrived in Iceland, Greenland and America.

Specifically, the rationale of Mr. Mariolakos was given in a writing of him that you can find

published on the Internet. There initially informs us how a geologist deals with one such

issue: "The geomythology is a branch of earth science that deals with physical and geological

conditions prevailing during the mythological era and, through this analysis, finds the

connection between geology and mythology. My own experience as a geologist who has

spent his life studying the geology of Greece, showed that (...) in Greek mythology are

included physical and geological processes that evolve in very remote areas, such as in theNorth Atlantic and elsewhere '. And then analyzes in detail the ancient sources examined,

such as the work of Plutarch "On the face shown attached to cycles of the moon."
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Archaeologists have found in

the U.S. 5000 open coppermines on Lake Superior from

where 500000 tonnes of

copper have been exported

between 2470 bC1050 bC

and no one knows where it

went!

The suspect minesSkeptical as I was in my quest to give "evidence". From

what he told me, I concluded that there were two

keys to unlock the case of "Greeks in America."One was a metallurgical inexplicable: U.S.

archaeologists have found 5,000 open copper

mines (almost entirely pure) on the shores of

Lake Superior, Michigan between the U.S. and

Canada, where there have been exported some

500,000 tonnes between 2470 to 1050 BC .,

which ... nobody knows where they went!

Specifically, the Indians in these regions then were

living in the Stone Age, and only after 1500 BC

began to use limited amounts of copper - and those

only for jewelry. So who was the "thief" and fromwhere and how did they come? Since the Mediterranean

and Mesopotamia were those then passing through the Bronze

Age (and copper was then more expensive than gold), the suspicions

directed thither. By striking coincidence indeed, the mysterious massive copper mining both

in North America and in Spain and Britain stopped around 1350 BC - The time the volcano of

Thera (Santorini) determined the fate of the Minoans. And the Greeks who received the

baton (Mycenaeans Achaeans initially, Dorians and Ionians then) are the ones who tell long

trips in Ogygia (Iceland), the Sea of Kronos (North Atlantic) and the westernmost coast. On

how they went, the answer could only be given to the key called knowledge of ocean

currents - currents of the ocean that Homer described as , meaning flows deeply

and , twist in the deep. The current of the Gulf of Mexico, the famous Gulf Stream,twists the Atlantic branching in loops that penetrate the Mediterranean and the Baltic.

Anyone who knows these places and Waterslides and place properly his hull onto them can

"flies". For example - says Mariolakos - Plutarch concluded that a boat like the "Argo" could

have traveled the 900 km distance between Britain and Iceland in 5 days (4-5 miles / hour).

Minoan sea cruises in the sea of Kronos (North Atlantic)

Minoan words and sketches of ships await their explanation on the rocks of the coast of the

Baltic.

The arguments of Professor Mariolakos were impressive and seemed reasonable. The

achievement extraordinary but he could not be satisfied only with the evidence that ancient


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ships like the "Argo" could go so far - let alone the even more ancient Minoan ships. I

remembered a story of 2010 by a Norwegian newspaper, according to which mysterious

letters of the period from 1800 to 1000 BC had been carved in granite. These letters

deciphered as Minoan by the Norwegian linguist and scholar Kjell Aartun who was honored

about it with the gold medal of the king. In Aartun, the Minoan words translated "Soft andpure", referring to the largest deposit of silver across Europe which were found by these

incredible treasure hunters in the Kongsberg region of Oslo. But had they left other traces

behind them?

I asked Dr. Mina Tsikritsi who previously had identified the "earthen computer navigation"

of the Minoans about it. When contacting us he questioned the interpretation of Aartun, but

was certain that it was Minoans, as a recent study of him added evidence supporting the

theory of Professor Mariolakos for passage to the other side of the ocean. He specifically

said:

Plutarch on Canada

One of the beaches veins- of copper in Lake Superior in the U.S., with traces of ancient

mining

- "Plutarch writes:" As to the great continent, from which the great sea is contained in a

circle from the other islands is less in distance, but the Ogygia about five thousand stages

traveling by boat with oars. (...) from the mainland Greeks residing nearby places around

vagina no less than the Maiotida (lake), whose mouth is in line with the mouth of the

Caspian Sea. "The distances between Greenland, Newfoundland and Baffin Island in Canada

is about 1,140 km, and between Newfoundland and Baffin Island is about 1,300 km A report

that around the bay there are Greeks reveals a Greek colony in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The important thing in this description is that it provides geographic information that are

correct. Indeed, the Gulf of St. Lawrence resembles Maeotid lake (Sea of Azov, Black Sea)

and is slightly larger. As for the information that the mouth of the bay is in line with the

mouth of the Caspian, looking in Google Earth anyone can easily discern that the two ports

are located at latitude 47th, so on the same line. This information is the only reference in

ancient literature that shows us that they were able, at that time, to determine the latitude

of a place. But there is something more in Plutarch that I consider proof that the theory of

travel to America is true".


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So What..- "He says:" When the star of Saturn, which we call Bright () while those nocturia,

arrived in Taurus after a period of thirty years, after much time preparing for the sacrifice ...

(start the return journey). "This enables us to control the astronomical period was possibly

made this trip recounts. Plato had classified the planets in the solar system in order from

outside to inside relative to the Earth, with the following names: Fainontas (Saturn)

Faethontas (Jupiter) Pyroentas (Mars), Lucifer (Venus) , Stilvontas (Mercury), Sun and Moon.

The name Fainontas etymologically means that which is visible, while the word nocturia

means this is the last to be seen in the night.

Using special astronomy program I have checked the geographical coordinates of Canada in

the time of Plutarch (1st century AD.) At what date and in what month the planet Saturn is in

the constellation of Taurus before the sun rises. I have confirmed that every 30 lunar years

appears indeed the phenomenon of Saturn rising in Taurus. Then, again, Plutarch says: "The

islands are inhabited by Greeks over and watch the sun hide for less than an hour for thirty

days. And the night there is a light darkness and dawn shines from the west." Since the

return journey began early June, then we need to check where they faced the sun hiding

under an hour for 30 days. With appropriate program found that at the time of the first

century. B.C. Greenland (60 degrees north) the sun set for an hour between 04.05 am and

this was for a period of one month, from 9/6 up to 9/7. This identification indicates that they

initially traveled north, reaching close to the Arctic Circle, where the sea was called Cronion

Sea (Sea of Cronus). In this area night has actually a dawn like darkness and light. This

astronomical connection, combined with the geographical knowledge of the two sites that

have the same latitude, shows that the journey described by Plutarch - from America to

Carthage, 86 AD - actually happened.

The reasoning was shocking, but what held me was that we were measuring data of a longer

trip of the Roman era - a time when perhaps the travelers had in use the Antikythera

Mechanism onboard. What evidence do we have that Minoan ships achieved the journey?

Surprises from the land of the Vikings gave us the answer.

Traces and intrigues in the New World

Incredible collection of soldiers and chariots in Illinois, but is it true?

What remained was to find relevant evidence on the shores of St. Lawrence or Lake Superior

to accept as likely the unlikely of the Minoans presence in America. Menzies mentioned such

the 1.200 Minoan finds around Lake Superior . So I set out to find them.


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It was revealed that the findings are indeed a lot:

the first non-Indian elements were found in

mining copper veins, at the Keweenaw Peninsula

of Lake Superior - near a village called ... Lavrion1

(Laurium). There was also found a petroglyph of ahighly symbolic Minoan ship. Also in Newberry,

Michigan, had already in 1896 been found three

statues and a label with "strange writing ". Nobody

could interpret it then, but when Evans went to

the excavations of Knossos - in 1900 - it became

apparent that the writing was also related to

Linear A.

The abundance of 'imaging elements "referring to

the Mediterranean was subsequently found in private hands, with most of them ending upto unknown collectors and many of them - gold and silver - is rumored to have been melted

by the greedy predators. Most were found in 1925 by a farmer in Illinois, Orville Lowery, and

in 1982 by an adventurer named Russ Burrows, who claimed to have found a sanctuary and

13 undisturbed tombs in a cave complex, also in Illinois.

To sum up briefly, the listed Internet findings on American soil include numerous stones with

engraved- on them- forms of soldiers in uniforms reminiscent Minoans, Philistines,

Mycenaeans, Phoenicians and Egyptians, many Petroglyphs with Minoan and Egyptian types

of ships, and other inscriptions with Cypro-Minoan writing and other composited with

Etruscan, Latin and Greek words. The most eloquent optically element (if proven authentic)is a medal that was found in Cleveland, Ohio in 2006, the Minoan axe on one side and on the

other the Prince of Lilies that we know from the mural in the palace of Knossos (1690 BC)!

Self proclaimed Archaeologists Messiahs

Silent witnesses of these stones of Michigan, with Minoan and Mycenaean ships engraved on them

The issue got more complicated when the "Indiana Jones of the Bronze age" were

approached by "archaeologists - militants" of the Mormon Church, who were attempting to

vindicate the spoken by their prophets that, America was colonized by... Jews around 2000

BC. Since then an incredible carousel has been erected with nterpretations of any kind -of

the findings- to spring up on the non scientific magazine Ancient American, while the

official archeology is absent. This paradoxical situation has led to a weakness of the crossing

of the truth of the allegations and to the expression of fiery theories. For example, aepigraphologist named Paul Schaffranke claimed in his 1995 lecture that he deciphered the

1Lavrion also is the name of an area in Athens, famous for its mines.

How was the caterpillar of

tobacco leaves Lasioderma

serricorne found in 1450 BCin the cape Akrotirion

area of Santorini island,

while we know that tobacco

arrived in Europe in the

16th century AD?


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composite writing of the ancient plates and that it tells an incredible Requiem of those first

settlers of America: that Greeks of Alexandria fugitives of the now Christian Roman Empire

- the last refuges, strongheld to the Phoenician Mauritania, and from there came together in

the Great Lakes, to build their gross and last kingdom!

Indians with Cretan DNAThe only scientific fact that we have to support all the scenarios of colonization of the

Mediterranean is the genetic study: Origin and Diffusion of mtDNA Haplogroup X, 2003

(vl.www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180497 /) . In this was detected that the

mtDNA haplogroup X2 that is encountered in the Cretans in a high percentage (7.2%) occurs

at a similarly high rate (to 5%) in 20,000 members of the Native American tribes of the

Northeast America! In such a "Eurasian conclusion" was reached also the cranial

comparative study of the University of Michigan Old Wor ld sources of the first New World

human inhabitants: a comparative craniofacial view, 2001. Then, in 2008, the work of a

team of researchers from universities in Greece, USA, Canada, Russia and Turkey, under the

professor of the Aristotle University, Constantine Triandafyllidis turned the projector of the

genetic tracing back further: he concluded -by DNA- that Minoans had settled in Crete

coming from Anatolia - the same place that in the 2nd millennium BC was conquered by the

Hittites.

And then I remembered that Minos had married the witch princess of Colchis, Pasiphae. Was

Colchis the sister kingdom of the expatriated Minoans? Scenario that fits well with the fact

that Georgian epigraphologists insist that the language of the Phaistos Disk is in hieratic

script of the ancient Colchis. And what was said in the "Argonauts" by Orpheus about the

Argonauts escape to the Baltic through Borysthenes (Dnieper) and their course to the island

of Medeas sister, Circe, to the coast of Mauritania, delivers a new meaning for the extent of

Minoan naval.

Should we rewrite the books?But are all these enough to write again the history books, to forget that Columbus was from

Chios" and to engage that "the Last of the Mohicans was a Cretan patriot"? Not yet. Some

mummies that were found in the "colonization" of America and in the neighborhood of

Stonehenge in England perhaps illuminate better the case. But we will be sure if only

archaeologists decide officially.

"Why", I asked Professor Mariolakos, "Since you are a member of the Central Archaeological

Council (KAS), do not send an archaeological expedition on Lake Superior;. "We should, as

by now identified and sunken port projects have been found in the region," he replied. "From

a scientific perspective, the Greek scientists can carry out the research project - and within

one to two years we will have the answers. However, the APC is an Advisory Council, which

does not form the research department policy and therefore can not take this decision.

Besides the ministry, of course, there are the archaeological departments of the University.

But in order to do such a thing, we must find both the necessary resources and will by our

archaeologists ", added meaningful.


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Source: TO VIMA newspaper Sunday April 8th

2012.

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