[EggsAckley]

The Bat Creek Stone was discovered in 1889 in an undisturbed burial mound in Eastern Tennessee by the Smithsonian's Mound Survey project.

In 1971, Cyrus Gordon identified the letters inscribed on the stone as Paleo-Hebrew of approximately the first or second century A.D. According to him, the five letters to the left of the comma-shaped word divider read, from right to left, LYHWD, or "for Judea."

In 1988, wood fragments found with the inscription were Carbon-14 dated to somewhere between 32 A.D. and 769 A.D. These dates are consistent with the apparent date of the letters.

Today the stone resides out of sight in a back room of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

[Just mythoughts]

Again thank you so much.

Do you have more info on the stone?

Is the stone native to TN, or has that been checked?

How big is it, it looks from the picture that it would not be hard to carry?

Why is this stone kept out of sight?

[Bernard Marx]

You didn't take your Google search far enough. Scroll down a couple of entries and try:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2712/Batcreek.html

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs, or something like that. The claim in this thread is tinfoil hat stuff.

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Today the stone resides out of sight in a back room of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

Keeping it hid so people can't learn about it?