The Philadelphia Inscription
Michael A. Cremo and Richard Thompson in the volume entitled "Forbidden Archaeology, Secret History of the Human Race", wrote:
"In 1830 shapes resembling alphabetic characters carved on a block of marble were discovered in a quarry at about twenty kilometers northwest of Philadelphia. The block of marble had been found at a depth of just over eighteen metres. The news was reported in the American Journal of Science in 1831. The quarry workers had removed layers of gneiss, mica schists, hornblende, talcoschists and primitive argilloschists, before arriving at the layer from which the block engraved with characters similar to letters of the alphabet had been cut... Numerous esteemed gentlemen were summoned to examine the object. The authors explain the formation of characters as the work of natural phenomena. Therefore we cannot do anything other than think of an intervention by intelligent human beings who lived in a remote past."
The note on the artefact is accompanied in the book by a depiction in which two unmistakably Greek letters can be seen, namely a Pi and an Iota, both capitalized.
It is truly difficult to conjecture that these two glyphs embossed on the marble slab are due to physical forces. We therefore find ourselves in the presence of a timeless artefact, an OOPART, perhaps a fragment of a larger artefact with an epigraph. The find is a challenge for archaeology, as it is completely incongruous in terms of location (how can the Hellenic alphabet in America be explained?) and chronology, as it is included in a presumably very ancient lithic layer. Countless, even if ignored by official paleontologists and archaeologists, are both fossils and objects that in no way fit into orthodox theories, with their approximate phylogenetic and historical reconstructions.
Recent discoveries and acquisitions in the paleontological, genetic and archaeological fields (think of the well-known Starchild) lead us to conclude that the story, as reported in pathetic school textbooks and academic publications, is little more than a story.
