Two months after the stone was unearthed, Everhart announced that it also was inscribed with hieroglyphics - “chiefly Greek, commingled with Phoenician and Etruscan.” As if that weren’t amazing enough, he also claimed that the stone was buried alongside an 8-foot-tall skeleton. One of the objects recovered from the mound was a sandstone slab with several circular depressions that might have been used for cracking nuts. Their recent book, "Gold and Silver Trinkets and Other Valuable Articles," includes a detailed account of the excavation of Brush Creek Mound by John Everhart in the late 1800s. Have the skeletons of giant humans ever been found in Ohio’s ancient mounds? Is there evidence that various Old World peoples came to America centuries before Vikings arrived on the shore of Newfoundland? Let’s consider one case for which we happen to have considerable relevant evidence and see what light it shines on these intriguing questions.Īvocational archaeologists Jeff Carskadden and James Morton have studied the archaeology of Muskingum County for more than five decades.
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