I went to your site. "According to James L. Murphy of Ohio State University, "Large white crinoid stems are common in the Upper Mercer and Boggs limestone units in Muskingum Co. and elsewhere, and these limestones are often very dark gray to black in color. You could find such rock at the Forks of the Muskingum at Zanesville, though the Upper Mercer limestones do not outcrop much further up the Licking." We therefore need not look any farther than the next county over to find a potential source for the stone, contrary to the previous assertion here that such limestone is not common in Ohio."
If someone is going to create a fraud, of course it's going to have Hebrew text on a stone.
Could it be that it originally came from one of the early Spanish explorers, some of which had Jewish backgrounds?
It's been a long time since I researched it, but if I remember correctly, the best evidence seemed to be in the mid 1800's. IOW, the likelihood that it was a Mormon creating fraudulent evidence to back up the claim from the Book of Mormon that the Indians were Israelites seems most probable.
Yes, you are absolutely right. When I last looked into this, the experts believed that this was an example of a fraudulent artifact created by a zealous Mormon trying to persuade others that the Book of Mormon was true.
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I'm not even sure what Perry Stone was trying to get across with the fairy stones, the Cherokee, and a story that they tell about fairies and the Christ.
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