I HEART CHAOS

Supposedly discovered hidden in the deserts of New Mexico in the 1880s, the ancient stone you see above is carved with the writing of ancient Greece. But how did an ancient Greek stone tablet, possibly from 500 BC end up in the middle of nowhere, New Mexico? Obviously, the ancient Greeks put it there.

The stone is also called the “Decalogue Stone,” and if you are able to reach its remote location you can walk right up to it and try to solve its mysteries yourself.

According to Atlas Obscura:

The stone was first acknowledged in literature in 1933 by famous New Mexico archaeologist Frank Hibben, who wrote of encountering the stone on a guided tour by an individual who claimed to have first discovered the stone in the 1880’s. The inscription’s alleged existence in the late 1800’s would place the inscribing before the modern scientific rediscovery of both Paleo-Hebrew and Cypriotic Greek. However, the inscription may well be Phoenician, a script well known at the time. Proponents of the inscription being in Paleo-Hebrew claim that it is a record of the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments, based on a 1949 translation by Harvard scholar Robert Pfeiffer. In 1979, a University of New Mexico epigrapher named Dixie Perkins put forth the theory of the inscription as Cypriotic Greek, used around 500 BC in the Mediterranean region. In Perkins’ translation, the stone reads as a report from an explorer or warrior named Zakyneros, who has become isolated in the wilderness and now struggles to survive. Many others however, believe the stone to be a hoax perpetrated by Hibben himself …

Hoax? Ha! The ancient Greeks were awesome and powerful seafarers, more than capable of sailing across the Atlantic and around South America without stopping anywhere else because they knew that New Mexico was the Land of Enchantment. And they dropped this stone here just to fuck with people in the future. It’s the least likely solution.

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