Dighton Rock
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The Dighton Rock is a 40-ton boulder composed of sandstone, originally located in the riverbed of the Taunton River at Berkley, Massachusetts, formerly part of the town of Dighton. The rock is noted f
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An exact copy of all symbols or petroglyphes by the Historical Commission of Providence, Rhode Island, published 1830
A daguerreotype mirror-reversed image of Seth Eastman on Dighton Rock, 1853
The rock in 2015 is on display in a small museum
Gavin Menzies
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Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus. Historians have rejected Menzies' theories and as
Dighton Rock
…a chief of the Indians." Hunter (2017) provides copious evidence and analysis debunking the Corte-Real origin myth. Chinese explorers, proposed by Gavin Menzies in his 2002 pseudohistorical book 1421: The Year China Discovered America Depths of inscriptions Although Mather described these as deeply cut, a…
Photograph of HMS Newfoundland, on which Gavin Menzies claims to have been stationed as an officer in 1959.
Menzies was inspired to write 1421 after a visit to the Forbidden City in Beijing, China with his wife Marcella for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.