Reinoud de Jonge (a Dutch chemist) and Jay Wakefield (an American biologist) have specialized in the study of megalithic culture. They present their analysis of a dozen archaeological sites, showing how many petroglyphs are geographic maps. They show how megalithic monuments provide numerical data revealing megalithic religion and ancient sailing discoveries in the Atlantic. For example, numeric picture writing at Loughcrew, Ireland, deciphered by the authors, reveals that these people gave up their efforts to cross the Ocean west of Greenland in 3200 BC. However, decipherment of the petroglyphs at Dissignac, France, shows that they next explored the Earth to the east, where they discovered Australia and Alaska. Subsequently, they found routes across the Atlantic, and built Stonehenge, the monument for the discovery of America. These decipherments shed light on a number of mysteries in American prehistory, such as the origin of the Olmec civilization, the Michigan copper mines, and the stone chambers of New England. This is the only book providing solid evidence, reasonable explanations, and comprehensive dating for megalithic petroglyphs and monuments. The authors illustrate the predictive power of these decipherments in several instances. This book will fascinate anyone interested in old religions, little-known petroglyphs, ancient seafaring, voyages of discovery, and the prehistory of Europe and America.

 

Summary
More than two thousand years before the start of the Egyptian civilization, the peoples in the Old World already believed in the SunGod, who knew everything that was going on in the human mind. In this time period in Europe and Africa they discovered that all the land ceased in the west, and that at that side there was an enormous sea, the Atlantic Ocean. Political and spiritual leaders told them that the Earth was a big sphere, just like the sun and the moon. They said that all the known land was surrounded by sea, and that in the west there was the empire of the dead, at the other side of the Earth. Impressed by this story people tried to cross the Ocean. They wanted to do that at the level of the Tropic of Cancer at 23° N, this in honour of the SunGod. From South to North, but also from East to West, they divided the surface of the Earth in latitude lines, and in similar distance lines. One after the other they discovered the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, the Islands of Madeira and Rockall, the Azores, the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland (c.3200 BC). But they did not succeed in crossing the Ocean. All these discoveries were fixed down in their Big-Stone-Monuments, in passage graves, stone circles, and the alike. For that reason we call these people the Megalith Builders. They made a few thousand geographic petroglyphs, too. The passage graves were in fact pre-christian churches of the SunGod. Most of these are situated in the west of Western Europe, and they are oriented to the west. So in fact, these are a kind of mission churches.

 

Still later, they discovered the islands of Ascension and St. Helena in the Southern Ocean. At one's wit's end they decide to explore the Earth to the east, and they discover Madagascar (East Africa), Australia, and America via the Bering Sea. Then they realized that the story of the SunGod was true indeed, and in South England they build Stonehenge, the monument for the discovery of America. For the first time and with the aid of a compass, they cross the Atlantic 2497 BC. With wind and current in their back, they sail via the Southern Crossing from Africa to South America, but also via the Upper North (Greenland). From North America, they still discovered the important islet of Bermuda (c.2200 BC). The return route was always sailed via the Azores and Madeira. Almost all these routes and discoveries were fixed down in dated monuments and petroglyphs. Slowly in North and South America the colonization of the peoples of the Old World is starting. In New England (US) a small megalithic colony is developing, that is involved in copper trade from the north east (Michigan), in trade via the big rivers (the Ohio) with the American hinterland, and in support for the returning ships of the Old World. With the aid of the governmental experience of the Egyptians, the civilization of the Olmecs is starting in Central America (the holy land of Punt). Finally, with the discovery of all the land on the planet Earth, the Megalithic Culture finishes 2000 to 1500 BC.