The Ohio Decalog

Ohio Decalog obverse, showing figure of a man with MSH over his head

Ohio Decalog underside Grave in Turkey near the ark, showing a stark resemblance to the Ohio Decalog in design and form.

The Ohio Decalog, is an ancient Hebrew artifact of pre-Columbian America, found in Newark, Ohio in November of 1860 by the local surveyor and his son, while searching the rubble of a giant stone tumulus, also known as the "Great Stone Stack," This amazing artifact has had a long and infamous history, particularly among professional anthropologists and archaeologists. It was roundly rejected at the time, as authentic, by American experts who had never been trained in old world cultures. This is still true of virtually all material with old world connections found in America even to this day. That great pile of rocks stood 45 feet high and 500 feet in circumference. In 1860 it had recently been leveled for dam building material - more than 10,000 wagon loads of stone had been carried away from the site. Under what had obviously been a huge , ancient grave marker were found some grave goods, a palette for a long-ago-decayed body, and a small stone artifact nestled within its own stone coffin. The artifact had the Ten Commandments carved in so called "modern Hebrew," a style in use for more that two thousand years. ( it can only be referred to as "relatively modern" ).

Of course, the experts and academics of that day, following the lead of Major Powell of the Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology ( in charge for the later half of the 19th-century ) , proclaimed it a "humbug," a "fraud," and a "hoax." The artifact was subsequently treated by Hubert H. Bancroft in a most arrogant manner, at two places in his 5 volume reference set "Native Races." So it went, on down through nearly 150 years, until a most recent article in the Ohio Historical Society magazine, "Timeline," (May June 2000) by Archaeologist Brad Lepper which follows the accepted line of thinking. It was created by a fraud, a malevolent, and unknown faker. But who?

This ancient artifact has been treated shabbily by all so-called experts, most who possess a great and bilious antagonism, embroidered into their malleable minds at their individual schools of "higher education." Robert Alrutz, however, a professor from Dennison University, Ohio wrote a paper favorable to the authenticity of the Ohio Decalog. Dennison University Journal, 1980. This was one of the only clear and fair-minded analyses of this ancient artifact.

Comparison of the Ohio decalog with the Ark of Noah impression. The design similarity is virtually impossible to separate.

Now we see this much maligned artifact in a new light. Here, for the first time is a direct comparison of this poor infamous piece of carved stone to the Ark of Noah impression in eastern Turkey (or at least what is left of the Ark of Noah.)

Please note the remarkable similarity of design and concept. The figure of a man is clearly seen, as similar to what appears to be the shape of a man in the ark of Noah, when the Ohio decalog is put slightly out of focus. Is this perhaps "Og," the mythological giant that according to rabbinical sources, escaped the flood by clinging to the roof of the ark.?

The figure is replete with breastplate and strong angular feature near his arm where the rock penetrated the hull of the ship. The relative scale is identical. The design is of a high order of similarity if not identical.

Brad Lepper, "expert archaeologist," tell me how this artifact, "fraudulent" in your eyes, came to be designed to resemble the hitherto unknown impression of the great ship of Noah in eastern Turkey if the creator of the artifact had not actually seen the ship impression? Remember, the Ark of Noah mold-impression was not found in recent times until 1948. It was well-known, however, 2000 years ago at the time the alphabet was in use that appears on the Ohio decalog.

If it is a fraud, how did it work its way under that "Great Stone Stack," an edifice whose history goes back into deep antiquity?

Or were Hebrews and other old-world peoples actually here in the Americas before columbus Brad?

How is it that this style of monumental Hebrew writing, used 2000 years ago in Palestine on grave monuments, unknown in 1860 came to be, in the final analysis, an accurate rendering of the Ten Commandments? ( with several typos to be sure - but made by imperfect human hands). See Ancient American magazine article: Deal, #11.

Here is the final evidence, that the Ark of Noah indeed rests on the hillside known anciently as "Mesha" (Genesis 10;30) and "Cardu" The hillside is still called "Mashu-r" by local Kurds, which means "doomsday." Why else would anyone create a religious artifact with reference to it?

Above the head of the figure of a man on the Ohio Decalog is the word in Hebrew, "MSH" meaning Mesha, Moshe or Mashu. ( to be drawn out of, or saved from water) Gilgamesh, while visiting Utnapishtim (Noah) at his post-flood home, called the place the mountains of "MASHU."

Here we have it then, the location of the Ark of Noah is indicated strongly, at last, by this vital piece of evidence.

And incidentally, Brad Lepper, expert archaeologist, representative of the American school, debunker and derider of truly ancient artifacts found here in the Americas, based on arrogant bias and total ignorance - the Ohio Decalog IS a real and valid artifact from ancient times, made with direct reference to the

Ark of Noah. It is not a mere coincidence.

They taught you a lie.

There never was, as you say a "forger," It's real.

I must paraphrase Robert W. Service here, I am sure he will forgive me when we meet on the other side.