Article Title

Inscription Appears to Be Hebrew

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Keywords

U.S. Bureaus of American Ethnology, Hebrew, eastern Tennessee, Cherokee writing system

Abstract

In 1889 a representative of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology excavated a small inscribed stone from an undisturbed burial mound in eastern Tennessee. He claimed that the signs on it were from the Cherokee Indian writing system invented about 1821. It was supposed at that time that these mounds were built in the centuries since European colonists had arrived.

Recommended Citation

(1989) "Inscription Appears to Be Hebrew," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 9: No. 3, Article 9.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol9/iss3/9