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2,500 Years Ago
The inscriptions written in various European and Mediterranean languages in alphabets that date from 2,500 years ago speak of visits by ancient ships, permanent colonies of Celts, Basques, Libyans, Egyptians. Cultural traits of Appalachian monuments from European and North African cultural interfaces and colonies circa 800 BC for buried stone buildings of America and sailing routes include Egyptian hieroglyphs, Celtic Ogham, Iberian-Punic script, Libyans, Mining, and Basque script. Inscriptions among the ruins attest tge story of how Europeans lived in the Bronze Age throughout the first thousand years of Celtic kingdoms and settlements in North America.
About 3,000 years ago bands of roving Celtic mariners crossed the North Atlantic to discover and colonize North America. They came from Spain and Portugal by way of the Canary Islands. The advantage of this route is that the winds favor a crossing from east to west but for Celts accustomed to a temperate climate, it led them to the tropical West Indies- in the Caribbean, the rocky coasts and mountainous hinterlands of New England most wanderers landed on a new European kingdom: Land Beyond the Sunset. In the time of Julius Caesar, the Firbolgs crossed the English Channel and the date of celebration for the great Celtic festival of Beltane (Mayday) is given in Roman numerals appropriate to the reformed Julian calendar introduced in 46 BC.
In the wake of the Celtic pioneers came the Phoenician traders of Cadiz, Spain who spoke a Punic and settled on the coast, bringing a style of lettering known as Iberian script. Other Phoenicians together with Egyptian miners became part of the Wabanaki tribe of New England. Further south, Basque sailors came to Pennsylvania and established a temporary settlement. Further south Libyan and Egyptian mariners entered Mississippi from the Gulf of Mexico, into inland Iowa and the Dakotas, and westward along the Arkansas and Cimarron Rivers. Norse amd Basque visitors reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence introducing various mariners' terms into the language of the norther Algonquian Indians. The Celts seem to first have settled near the rivers of New England, at North Salem on a branch of the Merrimac River in southern New Hampshire. At some time they ascended the Connecticut River, sailing as far north as Quechee, Vermont where a western branch of the river joins the main stream through a precipitous gorge.
The Celts turned westward and colonized the hanging valleys of the Green Mountains. In the secluded valleys on the hilltops, the great stone boulders left upon the land by the retreating glaciers at the end of the ice age, on stones, they cut their inscriptions using the ancient Celtic alphabet (Ogham). In America, Christianity never came to the Celts. Their old pagan inscriptions remained in tact and the oldest phases of North America in relgious thought and action of European man have survived in traces in Europe.