This confirms not only that Carthages Punic culture survived among the Hopewell culture, but also that Christianity, an Old World religion, later followed them across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World! A Punic gravestone, with neatly-executed Punic letters indicates that the Punic culture in North America was still well established three or four centuries after the fall of Carthage and in the second century after the birth of Christ. The presence of Christianity in the late Hopewell culture also confirms that the maritime routes between the Old and New Worlds were still active at that same time. Strong evidence has been found that at least one group of Jews traveled to the New World to seek refuge from the Romans. Dr. Cyrus Gordon wrote the following: Other contacts with the Roman Mediterranean of the second century A.D. have..e to light in Kentucky, where inscribed Hebrew coins of Bar Kochkbas rebellion against Rome (A.D. 132-135) were dug up in Louisville, Hopkinsville and Clay City...There is no difficulty in identifying these Bar Kochkba coins. Page 165, Israels Lost Empires, Steven Collins.
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