“My 15-Year Journey to Prove that the Phoenicians reached the Americas before Columbus”
In 2019 sailor, author, and fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, Philip Beale, set out to prove that the ancient Phoenicians could have crossed the Atlantic 2,000 years before Christopher Columbus. As captain and expedition leader of the Phoenicians Before Columbus Expedition, Beale tells the exciting story of arguably the most ambitious voyage in experimental archaeology since Kon-Tiki.
Coin from Sidon: One side of this mid-fourth century B.C.E. double shekel is engraved with a Phoenician galley riding the waves—a reminder of Sidon’s pre-eminence in maritime commerce and conquest.
“In 2009, The Phoenicia Ship Expedition has now demonstrated unequivocally that Lehi’s voyage could have left the Arabian Peninsula and sailed around Africa to the Americas rather than attempting to cross the earth’s largest ocean at its widest point, as proposed by Mesoamerican theorists.
In 2020 this same Phoenicia Ship Expedition has also demonstrated that Zedikiah’s son, Mulek escaped the Babylonians and could have left the area of Jerusalem on a Phoenician 600 BC style ship, which may have sailed to the new world and continued near Florida and up the Mississippi (Sidon) River and landing in present day Montrose, Iowa, across the river from Nauvoo, Illinois. This one replica 600 BC ship has proven two very important voyages testified about in the Book of Mormon, that were accomplished. This Phoenician Ship has sailed over 40,000 nautical miles in the past 10 years or so, and the Heartland Group now owns this amazing ship. We are looking for funding or donations to save the Phoenicia and rebuild it and display it near Joseph Smith’s amazing city of Nauvoo.
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Below is a recent update from Mike and Betty LaFontaine and John Lefgren of the Heartland group’s recent email. Join them in Fort Madison near Montrose, Iowa. You can assist in rebuilding the Phoenicia Ship. Email: [email protected]
Read Rod Meldrum’s blog all about the importance of the Voyages in relationship to the Book of Mormon Evidence:
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In this past year or so, the 600 BC replica Phoenicia Ship was purchased by the Heartland Research Group, in order to display the original ship that was sailed by Captain Philip Beale over 40,000 miles to America. It is currently in Montrose, Iowa today and volunteers are assisting the Heartland Research Group to rebuild a display it.
Heartland Research Group is supported by the FIRM Foundation and validates their belief that Lehi and Mulek could very easily have followed the route of the Phoenicia Expedition. Native Americans Mike and Betty LaFontaine have been instrumental along with Dr. John Lefgren in obtaining the purchase of the replica 600 BC ship called Phoenicia, which has been sailed over 30,000 nautical miles by Captain Philip Beale, retired British Navy. Captain Beale took a 2009 voyage from Jerusalem around the Horn of Africa and back to Israel. His goal was to prove the ancient mariner Herodotus could circumvent the African Continent in a trade route. On this voyage the Phoenicia came within 400 miles of Florida and could have easily landed there, where we believe Lehi of the Book of Mormon most likely landed. On a second voyage in 2020, Captain Beale again set sail in the Phoenicia and traveled from Tunisia to Florida, proving the possibility that Mulek could have traveled the same route to North America. Incidentally, Captain Beale is not a member of our Church and his goals of voyage are very different that we Saints. Yet, Captain Beale has assisted us tremendously in his discovery voyages. He is intrigued by our goals and is trying to learn more from us all.
Why at Montrose, Iowa? As you read scripture, Joseph Smith received a revelation while in Nauvoo, IL in March 1841 which said, “Let them build up a city unto my name upon the land opposite the city of Nauvoo, and let the name of be named upon it.” D&C 125:3 To many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we believe the “land opposite” is indeed Montrose, IA on the Mississippi River. We believe Montrose to be the very place that the Ancient City of Zarahemla of the Book of Mormon was.
Heartland Research Group has been doing research with magnetometry from Germany, LiDAR, resistivity scanning points from Russia, and dedicated shoe leather from Wayne May and Kevin Price. Information here
Why is Zarahemla in Montrose Iowa?
You can read an amazing article HERE, that was summitted to me to be shared as credible research from a man who wants this information to be known and prayed about. He believes the area of Montrose, Iowa is indeed in the Land of Zarahemla. This information comes from a very studious and spiritual man who has seen, heard, and studied both sides of the Mesoamerica vs Heartland theory’s of the Book of Mormon. He has important and authoritative information from many authorities, leaders, and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We believe the Land Zarahemla of the Book of Mormon is indeed in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Indiana.
Phoenicians Sailing to the New World
Did Phoenicians beat Christopher Columbus to the Americas by thousands of years?
It has already been established that Columbus was not the first European to lead an expedition to the “New World,” across the vast Atlantic Ocean to the continents that later came to be known as the Americas. The Viking Leif Erikson is now accepted to have been the first, establishing a settlement in modern day Newfoundland, Canada, some 500 years before 1492.
Since the 19th century, a claim has been staked on behalf of the Phoenicians. In 2019 The Phoenicians Before Columbus Expedition [Philip Beale’s Website] set sail in a replica of a Phoenician ship from the Mediterranean across the Atlantic in an attempt to establish that the Phoenicians may have reached the Americas as long ago as the 10th-century B.C.E.
Undaunted by the lack of evidence, the Phoenicians Before Columbus Expedition set out in 2019 to “prove” that Phoenicians reached the Americas by sailing a traditional Phoenician ship, and blogging their route and experience. The Phoenicia was modeled on a wreck dating to around 600 B.C.E., found in the Mediterranean. It was built using traditional methods and materials that would have been available at the time. The ship had already completed a successful 20,000 mile voyage, circumnavigating Africa in 2010.
The Phoenicia, after 39 days at sea, did in fact reach the Dominican Republic on December 31st, 2019. Even if the actual Phoenicians never reached the Americas, the journey demonstrates their impressive boat-building skills, and their capability to have done so. There is good reason they were famous mariners. Source Bible History Daily
Here is the recent newsletter from our affiliate, Heartland Research Group of June 26, 2022.
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