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The oceans were highways to America rather than barriers, and when discoverers put ashore, they were greeted by unusual inhabitants. In Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America, the author of The Atlantis Encyclopedia turns his sextant towards this hemisphere. Here is a collection of the most controversial articles selected from seventy issues of the infamous Ancient American magazine. They range from the discovery of Roman relics in Arizona and California's Chinese treasure, to Viking rune-stones in Minnesota and Oklahoma and the mysterious religions of ancient Americans. Many questions will be raised including:

What role did extraterrestrials have in the lives of ancient civilizations?

What ancient pyramids and towers tell us about the people who built them?

Are they some sort of portals to another dimension?

What prehistoric technologies have been discovered, and what can they tell us about early settlers, their religious beliefs, and possible other-worldly visitors?

Did El Dorado exist, and what of the legendary Fountain of Youth?

Was Atlantis in Cuba?

What are America’s lost races and what happened to them?

Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America brings to the fore the once-hidden true past of America’s earliest civilizations

Frank Joseph is the author of The Atlantis Encyclopedia (New Page Books), as well as a dozen other books on history, prehistory, and metaphysics. He has been the editor-in-chief of Ancient American magazine since its first issue in 1993. He lives in Wisconsin.

Wayne May is the founder-publisher of Ancient American. Laura Lee is the award-winning producer and host of the nationally syndicated "The Laura Lee Show". David Hatcher Childress wrote the best-selling Lost Cities series. Zecharia Sitchin is the author of the best-selling Earth Chronicles series. Andrew Collins is world-renowned for his consistent bestsellers, including Gateway to Atlantis.

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Great articles help uncover the truth!

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Anyone who has more than a passing interest in the real truth of what has actually been dug up by archaeologists & anthropologists for hundreds of years all around the world, should add this book to their collection. It combines articles from various authors and gives a straight-forward, non-technical look at what experts like Dr. Virginia Steen-McIntyre have been proving for years, that there were great civilizations that have existed on earth for thousands of years, long before the so-called "main stream scientific experts" allow to be disseminated to the general public. I see lots of reviews of books like this one, with uninformed neophytes claiming "how can someone take fables and pass them off as truth". While these same reviewers will spout Bible rhetoric and try to convince everyone that the Bible is truth, but nothing else is. Well, if you can believe in the Bible myth why not Atlantis and the like. Sorry Bible thumpers, but it's pure hypocrisy and you know it. This is a great book, with honest and true facts and if you don't want to know about the world of the past don't by it.

Good Short Summary Compilation

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This is a fairly decent book in some ways and one to take with a big laugh in others. I've certainly read worse though. Most of it is review for me since I've read most of the authors mentioned here in more detail and most of the information was not new to me. Overall the feel for the book is rather one sided. For example, some of the latter stories regarding ancient findings of artifacts and one in particular about an oil lamp that was found in a yard in Ohio strongly lead the reader to believe that the oil lamp that was found by this gentleman has been there since ancient times never mentioning the fact that due to the masses of peoples populating the USA that it is more likely that the lamp was in fact brought here and discarded by a settler rather than laying there in someone's yard waiting to be found for thousands of years. Why it is easier to believe that the lamp lay there undisturbed in the ground all by itself with nothing else anything like it found before or since in the same area is beyond me. The idea that the lamp could quite easily be explained by another reason as simple as a theory that maybe the man that found it made it all up and put it there himself after buying it in a garage sale is never brought forward. In other words this is not proof at all for the ancients being in America but just another of many unverifiable stories that may as well sit along side the big foot, UFO/USO and big bird stories in other books. Frankly I'm surprised this and some other stories like it were even used because they do not show very much in the way of intelligent study of the findings but in fact bring the book down a notch to that approaching a tabloid magazine article. There are more stories like this in the book that are strongly one sided never mentioning the pros and the cons of the view point or other educated alternative perceptions as to the origins of some of the findings but there are more than one that show a quick wit to shun and look down on the acedemic society for how they do things. Ironic isn't it? In short this book is entertaining reading so long as you take each story with a grain of salt so to speak. I will say that Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America is not of the calipre of Forbidden Archaeology by any stretch of the imagination. If you want real in depth study of this subject that would be the book to buy I think. This book would be a good precursor to that one though to warm you up to the things you will learn in it. STR

Great detail detective work, but...	Customer Rating:
This is a great resource for historical artifacts that don't fit the usual history of America, but the conclusions are very speculative. The book Noah's Ark, Discovering the Science of Man's Oldest Mystery offers a more plausible explanation with facts that support the theory.

Be careful. A lot of conspiracy theories BASED on facts

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This book is a compilation of articles that take facts and add conjecture or speculation to arrive at a possible thesis. The articles in this book are generally based on large leaps of faith which have little or no basis. The editor, Frank Joseph, is from a historical conspiracy theory type magazine called Ancient American. The book is a collection of articles from the magazine, printed in book form for a quick buck. If you looked for this book in your local bookstore, you would most likely find it in the "new age" or "alternative history" section. It is not possible to read this book as non-fiction because some of it is based on guesswork or patchwork history. If fact and fiction are mixed, you have fiction, no matter how much fact is involved. Unless you are a conspiracy theorist or you are looking for a book full of magazine articles of historical fiction, you can probably skip this one. Some of the stories are interesting, but all are portrayted as journalism when they would more accurately be described as historical fiction.

Authentic Ancient American History

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Finally, people aren't ignoring the evidence of pre-Columbus voyages to America. This change in thinking has been a long time coming. This book presents some of the most compelling evidences for the voyages and visits. Even skeptics will have a hard time putting this book down. See also: Columbus Was Last: From 200,000 BC to 1492, A Heretical History of Who Was First & The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America