The Lost Colonies of Ancient America: A Comprehensive Guide to the Pre-Columbian Visitors Who Really Discovered America Paperback – Illustrated, October 21, 2013

This was a great read. It's very well laid out and based on facts, not just opinions. I know extremely little about history however I've taken an interest in it as of late. This books was easy for me to jump right into and understand. I knew a little about the Norse artifacts we found in America but had no idea of the plain massive amount of evidence showing Columbus was not the first to discover America. Everything was backed up with references and facts that can be checked. This book changed my entire perspective of our world and helped me to learn more about our history along with the history of other cultures and colonies. You MUST read this book! It's truly a necessity.

Why four stars? It seems too easy to score points against this book. It is in serious need of an editor, to tighten up the narrative, or even just a proofreader, to eliminate stray superfluous words which resulted from careless cut-and-pasting. It certainly needed a fact-checker: if you are going to explain the Christian use of the fish as a symbol for Jesus, at least get your Greek right, and, as many people have already pointed out, Wyoming is not in the Four Corners region, etc.. The citations are dubious: too many are to Ancient American, of which the author was editor-in-chief, and others are to books published by companies most of us have never heard of. (Note that I don’t think “Frank Joseph”’s past history, as a pedophile and a neo-Nazi, is of any relevance here, although others seem to. Anyone is entitled to the benefit of the judgment after serving their time, and the one thing this book is not is white-supremacist - it claims to be an account of the remarkable achievements of just about every race on earth!).But nevertheless I think four stars is what it deserves. Unless every one of the examples cited was fabricated by people every bit as obsessive as I suspect the author himself is, this is an astounding compilation of little pieces of evidence which, taken together, add up to a good case for reexamining the historical narrative taught in our schools. As Karl Popper said, no amount of experiments can ever prove a scientific theory, but a single experiment can disprove one, so we should welcome uncomfortable findings as advancing the frontier of knowledge (especially in this young country, which has such a strong foundation myth). Of course, some of his sources, such as Gavin Menzies’ “1421: The Year China Discovered America”, have already attracted quite a lot of criticism, and on closer attention may not survive to be of much help (he does not mention one of my favorites in this category, Farley Mowat’s “The Farfarers: A New History of North America”, which I think would actually strengthen his case considerably).The impression the author gives is that the archaeological establishment has scorned these findings because they do not fit with majority academic opinion - often without even bothering to examine the evidence (or, as in the case of the Roman amphorae in Rio harbor, actively concealing the evidence for theological reasons). So - four stars for stirring up the hornets’ nest in a most entertaining way, and in the hope that a strictly neutral researcher will one day untangle this web.

For a very long time, I have suspected many of the things Frank Joseph has presented in his book. This is a spell binding series of events that prove people were coming here long ago. I always suspected the Minoans and Phoenicians, but Mr. Joseph shows how many other peoples came here and some as a joint effort between countries. Even as a young man it seemed that Columbus must have had a map. Recently I read that he admitted there was a map. He ran into an Island before he got to the mainland, but many followed in his footsteps and that helps to prove it could have been done long ago.The saddest thing is the most overwhelming cover-up that has been performed by our leaders and this starts even before Thomas Jefferson, but he helped the cover-up considerably. It couldn't get out that there were Europeans here, and the Indians were savages that had to be eradicated. That allowed our ancestors to take all the land. So many artifacts have been lost and destroyed, because the powers that be, said they were fakes. In 1848 Abe Lincoln made a comment about giants being found in "Indian Mounds". He had been informed of these people with two rows of teeth, both uppers and lowers and ranging from seven and one half to over ten feet. Some had six fingers and toes. These all disappeared to some place, maybe even destroyed.My copy is loaned to a friend and I'm going to read it again when he gets done. I plan to order some more for fellow history buffs. This is a book that must be read, but you are going to be unhappy with the cover-up. I'm going to look up some of these ancient fortresses as they are within an hours drive from me.

Frank Joseph has devoted his life to gathering information about pre-Columbian America. Hence he is in a good position to write this book, which summarizes the evidence against the conventional histories of the Americas. In particular, he shows that there is a mountain of evidence that suggests that the Americas were visited by people from the Old World many times prior to Columbus. The book is required reading for anyone who is even a little curious about the topic.The conventional view is that the oceans were an impenetrable barrier that prevented ancient peoples from traveling to the Americas. The alternative view is that the oceans were highways that facilitated such visits. In my mind, the latter view is much more plausible, despite what the academic authorities say. Academics, like all other people, suffer from what psychologists call "confirmation bias." That means that they look for evidence that confirms what they already believe, and discount evidence to the contrary. To be sure, people from the alternative schools of thought suffer from the same problem. But by now the evidence that pre-Columbian America was visited many times by people from the Old World is simply too great to ignore. So expand your mind; read this book.