Barry Fell, the late great hidden historian of America.
Barry Fell’s books were ‘disappeared’ from the bookstore shelves in the 1990’s.
At that time, I wanted a personal copy of one of his books that I had found in a University Library, and went to one of those bookstores with the sign in front “We will find all rare books”. When I entered and told him which book I wanted, he shook his head. “But the sign says…” I started to say, and he said “It is too difficult, not worth my while.”
But Barry Fell’s books are now available and I want to give the links first, to show you that they are available without trouble and hope to show you that they are worth reading.
Other books in this series will not be available outside of used book stores (if you are very lucky) or big municipal and university libraries—(if you are connected with a college which has the inter-library loan system, you can order those books for two weeks through that system).
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?z=y&SAT=11&SZE=10&WRD=Barry+Fell
This site has the books but they are not available at the moment and you have to put in an order:
http://www.powells.com/s?kw=Barry+Fell&x=75&y=10
What is this all about???
Barry Fell was an oceanorgrapher and he traveled the seas in the course of his work. During his travels he came upon writings on cave walls etc on islands that supposedly had never been inhabited. His curiosity was stirred and he became curious about ancient history in general and the history of North America in particular.
He wasn’t your average person, he was skilled at the ultimate puzzler art—interpreting unknow writings. For this he needed not only a crossword puzzle head, and a good mathematical brain, but a brain for languages. There are not that many people born on this planet with all those talents at once.
Over a period of many years Barry Fell and his associates investigated many sites in North America. He came to the conclusion that many of the Ameridian tribes came to North America, not over the Berring Straights from Asia hundreds of thousands of years ago, but from all the continents of the earth over a period of time that included historical times. He found that many Ameridian native traditions mentioned coming over in a boat, not coming by foot.
With his curiousity and his language skills he was able to say that the Algonquins had their roots in the territory that became France, the Zuni in Libya, the Pima from the Iberian areas,and the Micmac from Egypt. These groups were described in the book America, B.C. published in 1977. He went on to show that many other Ameridian groups had their roots in Europe, Africa or a much more modern Asia than is currently believed.
He showed in other books that there was a regular commercial route from the area of current day Spain to North America until around 400 of the common era (C.E. which is how, I as a Jew, refer to the dating commonly written as A.D.).
There were Roman coins found all over colonial America, and this knowledge was originally widely known. (Try to find some books written in the 1830’s to the 1870’s—they should be in old university libraries--- I found them and they had extensive evidence of the Vikings in North America!!!)
It only became a threat when the American government was interested in destroying Indians and their culture in the late 1800’s and did not want it known that there was any contact with Europe before Columbus ( why? because they wanted to label the Amerindians as ‘primatives’ the way the Nazis later labled the Jews as ‘defectives’ so that the average person would see them in a negative light and not take protest at their fate)---even though the Vikings of Vineland had paid their tithes to the Catholic church and these tithes were duly recorded for any historian (and a few did find them) to see.
Columbus himself, according to my readings, made use of information from Viking times etc –ie as well as the portolano maps) when he took his journey. From what I’ve read he knew that he was not going to China, but that is another story and I may get into that controversy someday also.
Anyway, with Barry Fell’s knowledge of Arabic and his ability to read the old writing, he found that so-called “decorations” found in Colorado, and gathered in a photographic book of these decorations, were Arabic writings. One of them that I remember off hand was “Beware of scorpions”. Other so called “decorations” were tables of the prices gotten for furs in Europe and China!!! Among the Arabic writings, Barry Fell and company, found and photographed in a cave in the South West, a Hebrew inscription of the Ten Commandments, written in the ancient Hebrew script but printed in the square Greek style!! The photograph is in one of the later books, with many other photographs including pictures of the stone counting ‘machine’ used that time in a way similar to an abacus.
In America B.C. there is a chapter of “The Druids of New England”. Barry Fell and company discovered that the so-called ‘root cellers’ found through out New England were Celtic temples oriented to suntimes and inscribed with readable Celtic writing—“…the Ogam alphabet of at least twelve symbols identical with those used in Portugal and Spain in the late Bronze Age.”( page 193, America B.C.)
There is just so much to tell about, for instance the ancient international dateline that actually existed! But I can’t in a blog.
What I can do is recommend to everyone who loves history to get a hold of at least two of Barry Fell’s books, lots of pretzels and some not too strong beer, or cola, or lemonade and have a good read.
Warning: I am not interested in the naysayers and will just delete any globalized comments about how this is not true etc. Write your own blog to nay-say.
This series is for those who want to open their minds and are not terrified of knowing what the powers that be, in education, or in politics, or science, don’t want them to know. Real discussion is welcomed. Discussion is not name calling, or “put-downing” it is a dialogue of mutual respect which is trying to move to a deeper or more broader understanding of a subject, with the subject as primary and the ego as secondary--- if there at all.
