FIRST TRANSLATION OF STONE NUMBER 32

You’ve got it – everything. It is manifested in your words and your cognitive abilities. Count down your time. You have come down with scurvy.

Brian Nettles is pushing on the frontier of knowledge. We are so excited that he is doing what he does. He has finished his first translation of Stone Number 32. Click here to see his linguistic analysis of each character that is cut in the stone. Click here to see the transliteration of the Phoenician writings on Stone 32 to the Hebrew alphabet.

Rosetta Stone and Stone Number 32

The cracking of written Egyptian from the Rosetta Stone started with one word. From that word scholars developed a base for translating thousands of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The Rosetta Stone was found in July 1799 by French officer Pierre-François Bouchard during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this previously untranslated hieroglyphic script. Lithographic copies and plaster casts soon began circulating among European museums and scholars. When the British defeated the French they took the stone to London under the Capitulation of Alexandria in 1801. Since 1802, it has been on public display at the British Museum almost continuously and it is the most visited object.

Is Stone Number 32 from the John White Collection the Rosetta Stone of the Phoenician language found in the Mississippi Valley?

Surely, there are codebreakers who can devote their considerable talents to a review of what Brian Nettles offers on his internet page for anyone to examine and critique.

First Translation from Stone Number 32

You’ve got it – everything. It is manifested in your words and your cognitive abilities. Count down your time. You have come down with scurvy.

Stone Number 32 and Scurvy

Scurvy killed more than two million sailors between the time of Columbus’s transatlantic voyage and the rise of steam engines in the mid-19th century. The problem was so common that shipowners and governments assumed a 50% death rate from scurvy for their sailors on any major voyage.

Sailors and passengers who sail across the oceans need to ensure that their diet contains enough Vitamin C to prevent scurvy.

Seafarers have suffered from scurvy for thousands of years. In the 16th and 18th centuries alone, an estimated 2 million sailors died of the disease, decimating entire ship crews. Vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy. Scurvy has dramatic and terrible symptoms. Over the period from 1500 to 1800, scurvy killed more sailors than all other diseases combined.

The Phoenicians were the best mariners in ancient times. It was they who developed the alphabet in our familiar form of A-B-C.

We believe that the Phoenicians arrived from the Old World to America in 600 BC. It is not surprising that one of the first translations from the ancient Phoenician stones in the Mississippi Valley deals with scurvy.

All scholars around the world are invited to comment on Brian Nettles’ translation. Stone Number 32 from the John White Collection deserves to be examined as a real artifact requiring the best minds of our generation.