Eureka! I found one Epigraphist
of the
XV and XVI centuries
By Manuel
Luciano da Silva, M. D.
With
the help of the Internet, sending out dozens of quests all over North America
and Europe, I finally found one Epigraphist of the XV and XVI centuries, in
north of Portugal.
He
is Professor-Doctor Mário Jorge Barroca, Professor in the History Department of
the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, Portugal.
He
defended his Doctoral Thesis six years ago. It is a monumental Thesis. It
comprises four large volumes with a total of over three thousand pages and
with more than one thousand photographs of inscriptions of the XV and XVI
centuries of various monuments in Portugal.
He
received me very well in his office at the University.
I like him. He seems to be very pragmatic and straight forward.
Professor Doctor José d’Encarnação,
Chief of the Archaeology
Department of the University of
Coimbra, informed me by e-mail, that “he considers Professor
Mário Barroca, an honorable investigator, very dedicated and very
knowledgeable.“
Professor
Barroca is going to reviewed all
the photographic materials concerning the research of the Dighton Rock
inscriptions done up to now, and then, only then, he will pronounce himself
about the truth concerning
the inscriptions.
Eventually
he will come to America to exam Dighton Rock in loco.
If he does that, he will be the first Portuguese scientist, and the first
Epigraphist of the XV and XVI centuries in the world, to ever examine Dighton
Rock face to face!
Doctor Mário Jorge Barroca is Professor in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, Portugal and teaches Medieval Archaeology and also Medieval Archeology for master degrees. He has published more than sixty works concerning Medieval Art and Archaeology in the north and center of Portugal.