thephoencicianshadnothingtodowithdightonrock

The Phoenicians had nothing to do with Dighton Rock!
By Manuel Luciano da Silva, Medical Doctor
Feb. 26 2005

Anyone can come up with a theory for the Dighton Rock inscriptions. However if there are NO inscriptions engraved on the face of Dighton Rock to TESTIFY for your theory, you have NO theory at all. You have to show EPIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE that the rock HAS engravings demonstrating the symbols or letters that comprise your theory, otherwise you have nothing! Scientifically, it is as simple as that!

In 1781, Antone Court Gebelin, from Paris, France, WITHOUT ever seeing Dighton Rock in the local, he took a look at some drawing of the inscriptions, (Steven Seawalll´s-1768), and from more than three thousand miles away, he thought he could identify, an oracle, a priest, a butterfly, a sparrow, a beaver and a horse! He further imagine a penis and testes. That was the most sexy historical analysis of Dighton Rock !...

It so happens that NONE of those symbols Monsieur Gebelin proposed are part of the NATIONAL symbols of the Phoenicians. The National symbol of the Phoenicians, as of the Lebanese people today, was and still is a Pine Tree which appears on their national flag TODAY!

The flag of the old Phoencians. Please note the colors of red and white and also the pine tree in the center.

Compare this flag with today´s national flag of Lebanan, below.

First central top page story on “The New York Times” showing the casket of the former Prime Minister of Lebanan who was assassinated by terrorists. Please note the Pine Tree on their national flag with the white and red colors!

There are NO pine trees engraved on the face of Dighton Rock !

The Phoenicians, Great People: Phoenicia was the name the ancient Greeks gave to the region which today comprises the coastal areas of Syria , Lebanon and Israel . The Greeks called these people Phoenicians because of their trade of red-purple cloth which the Greeks named “phoinix” and which meant “red-purple”.

I have great admiration for the Phoenician people. They were very ingenious. They discovered the consonants that we use today. The Greeks discovered the vowels to complete our alphabet. The Phoenicians also were the first people that start using coins as money. But their most important contribution to humanity was their ship building using the wood from their pine trees or cedars abundant in their mountains. They became the first navigators and traders of the Mediterranean Sea . They created the first commercial enterprises and colonies around the Mediterranean. Their famous and attractive industry was a red purple cloth which they sold at high price to the well to do people around the Mediterranean .

Panel inside the Museum: Inside of the Dighton Rock Museum there is one entire panel dedicated to the Phoenician theory, with Gebelin´s explanation. Many people who visit the museum have remarked: “Why have such nonsense theory inside of the museum?” My answer to them is: “So everyone will be able to make the DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS of different theories. This way it proves we are not hiding anything from the general public. The Museum respects everyone´s intelligence. It is for each visitor to choose what he or she feels is the correct diagnosis”.