This month sees Gavin and Marcella off on their travels again. They will be visiting various locations in India, China, the USA and Canada. Gavin will be talking at Concordia High School, Shanghai, on 15th October, as well as participating in several interviews and book signings along the way.

 

We are pleased to announce that Paul Chiasson's book "The Island of Seven Cities" was published in mainland China recently by SDX Joint Publishing Company. We offer Paul our congratulations! We are also pleased to say that a television documentary on the subject is now in production. 

 

Gunnar will speak at the Internet Atlantic Conference on Saturday, October 10th, starting at 9 AM Eastern Time in the USA. His topic will be "Ancient Egyptian Maize" with an introduction on turkeys and Turkey Corn in the British Isles. The Egyptian maize he has found dates to 4000 BC; and it follows introduction via Minoan Crete and the Middle East circa 5000 BC. It now appears that maize, or Indian corn, was a major crop in Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. This is a major breakthrough as all the traditional historians have claimed for the past century that there was no maize in Egypt until after Columbus. The Conference will have a chat room and a telephone call in service so Gunnar can answer questions. His presentation is already on the www.atlanticconference.org web site.
Gunnar is placing all of his old books (with revisions) on the www.lulu.com print-on-demand service. They will be available in hardback editions costing less (in most cases) than the original paperback version. He also has a new book available through lulu called "Ancient Egyptian Maize."

Charlotte has various speaking engagements in the coming weeks.

October 15, 2009 - 12 noon at Stanford University, California
October 16, 2009 - 6:30 pm at Portland State University
October 20, 2009 - 7:00 pm at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

For more information on the talks and for registrations please visit her website www.harrismaps.com

She also has several exciting projects in the works right now. Amongst other things, on her website you will find an English translation of a news article published in China on 9/3/2009 stating that the Chinese reached America by sea by 1100 B.C.  She would love you to go and explore her website in more detail!

A few months back we were sent an interesting paper by John H. Ruskamp and John A. Ruskamp Jr. They had written it completely independently of our research, and were surprised to find others in agreement with their theory. In this study the elements of an ancient petroglyph found in the Northwestern Mojave Desert are
compared with two similar Native American glyphs located hundreds of miles apart in Utah. All three of these glyphs are collectively compared with the modern form of the Chinese ideograph for a boat, Zhou. In addition, two other glyphs that resemble an older form of the Zhou ideograph are considered. The report establishes the proper interpretation of all five of these petroglyphs as depictions of a boat.
To view the paper please click here.