Orleans, France - 23 July 1971 - An anthropological excavation looking for crockware from the late middle ages uncovered a strange map that was (in 1976) carbon dated to roughly the year 500 AD. Found with texts written in what appears to be fifth century Turkish, this map became an instant scandal through the halls of academia, because it was clearly property of the Huns. This map shows the far-eastern coast of Asia (which they debated may have been learned from their preChristian ancestors who lived in the Steppes just north of China), a large ocean containing several islands that have been identified as possibly Japan, possibly the Hawaiian islands, and what appears to be the edge of another continent.

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On closer examination, some experts have identified it as the west coast of North and Central America. "The Mexican Si-Baja Peninsula, just South of California, is one of the key features onto which researchers latched," says Anthropologist Joanne Welles (pictured). "As you go south, this 'mystery continent' appears to hedge further east, just as the west coast of Central America does."

Welles theorizes that the map was hidden at the Huns' defeat in Orleans early in the sixth century (at the hands of the Romans and the Visigoths), and believes that when it comes to arcane knowledge the Huns might be the unsung heroes who helped bring knowledge and scientific innovation to Europe, something generally attributed to the Romans.

"They crossed Asia and Europe starting before the life of Christ. In China at that time there was a scientific explosion and though the Huns were often believed to be barbaric, there's no reason to believe that some of them might have brought knowledge from the east that spurred progress in Rome and greater Europe." Currently Welles is working with leading scholars from Bucharest University in Romania, trying to recreate the Hun's path across two continents, linking their flight with scientific milestones.

Some call Welles' work "flimflam" and "unscientific," such as Kenneth Glick, Ph.D. of Bowling Green University's Cultural Anthropology Department. Dr. Glick notes many discrepancies such as scale. "To say that ancient Huns either had the technology or knew cultures who might have the technology in the sixth century of the common era (C.E.) to circumnavigate the globe is akin to claims that the Egyptian Pyramids can foretell the future. " Says Glick.

Editor's note: I have tried to find anything about this woman and her research on about every science and Anthropology web page I could find, even stooping to going to THE LIBRARY!!! As nothing could be found, one can only imagine that this map must have gone the way of Velikovsky. Oh well.
-Derek

sources

"The Huns and the Key to Knowledge," Strange Facts of the Unknown World, Published in 1978 by Register Press

phone interview with Kenneth Glick, April 10th, 1998

Photo courtesy of Strange Facts of the Unknown World