![]() In 2010, The History Channel released a documentary, “Who Really Discovered America?” It examined claims of a host of reputed pre-Columbian arrivals: the Chinese, Welsh, Polynesians, Israelites, Vikings, Irish, Japanese and others. It is the dozens of 10 – 16 foot high stone heads produced by the ancient Olmec civilization, the “Olmec Heads.” They have unmistakably African features. The visual evidence by itself carries the day. However, one needs no technical expertise to evaluate its claims. ![]() Nonetheless, They Came Before Columbus has been dismissed out of hand by the academic establishment. ![]() The author cites a wealth of linguistic, historical and anthropological evidence, not to mention the written accounts and diaries of Columbus and other explorers who mention finding Black people already here when they arrived. Ivan Van Sertima’s 1986 book, They Came Before Columbus, claims that Africans made a series of settlements in the Americas hundreds of years before Columbus set sail. ![]()
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