A chance discovery in the Anthropology Department’s archaeological teaching collection unearthed clues to a bizarre story of myth, history, and archaeology. That was the topic of a talk entitled “Ohio’s Strange Connection to the Lost Continent of Mu” by Dr. Jeb Card at the Fort Ancient archaeological park in Oregonia, Ohio in March 2016, as part of their Winter lecture series. Card described how he discovered inscribed stones with fragments of writing from the Lost Continent of Mu in a basement storage facility for anthropology collections during the creation of a college course on the practice and ethics of art and archaeology. These stones were part of an ancient library in Central Mexico, and the best evidence for the Lost Continent of Mu. And like the Continent, the tablets had also gone missing, making their rediscovery all the more amazing. The only problem is: The Lost Continent of Mu never existed. The stones in Miami’s collection are rare remnants of one of archaeology’s great hoaxes. Relying on 10 years of research and extensive travel, Frank Joseph offers. It was known as Lemuria or Mu, a vast realm of islands and archipelagoes that once sprawled across the Pacific Ocean. William Niven, a mineralogist and archaeologist, claimed in 1921 to have found 2500 tablets inscribed with markings quite unlike anything else in the historical record. The Rise and Fall of the World’s Oldest Culture. Popular and scientific debate concerning its origins argued. Nature, however, sometimes made her own forms appear artificial. The British occultist and author James Churchward claimed that they were written in an esoteric “Mayan-Naga” language which he translated to tell the story of the lost continent of Mu, a Pacific counterpart to Atlantis, from which human life and civilization originated. Already there were whispers of the lost culture of Mu, preserved in legend as the Motherland of Civilization which perished in the sea long before the beginning of recorded time. But a hoax by whom? Did Niven create the stones in hopes of selling them to museums (as he did many authentic Mayan artifacts), or was he hoaxed by the Mexican laborers he employed at his sites, taking advantage of his ignorance at a time the science of archaeology was still in its infancy? Geologists have long dismissed the claim of the lost continent as impossible, and archaeologists have uniformly agreed that the Niven tablets were a hoax. The tablets were long thought to be lost during their attempted shipment from Mexico to the U.S. One of these was John Coulter, a wealthy collector and Miami alumnus who left his collection to the university.ĭr.īut a few were apparently sold or gifted to museums and collectors. Mu is the name of a hypothetical continent that allegedly existed in one of Earths oceans, but disappeared at the dawn of human history. Card is a Visiting Assistant Professor and the Assistant for Special Projects at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.Occultist James Churchward was obsessed with the lost continent of Mu, home to the original human civilization, after learning of this mysterious and forgotten paradise from an Indian priest, who shared several ancient tablets written by the Naacals, the inhabitants of Mu.
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