Return of the Phoenicia on the Mississippi River

I believe the Mulekites traveled the same path as the Phoenician Expedition has just made. Philip Beale a British sailor and ship arrived in Ft Lauderdale Florida from Tunisia on Tuesday Feb 4th, 2020. It was a voyage of about 4 months  It is very probable that the Mulekites traveled into the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans and traveled up the Mississippi (Sidon) River and stopped near Nauvoo.

Philip Beale in speaking about taking the northern route from Gibraltar to Florida or the southern route, he said,

"It is fairly straight forward I think.. the southern route is by far the easiest because of the prevailing winds and currents.

If you look at the Gulf stream that was first identified by Benjamin Franklin.. from the Med to the Caribbean is a simple conveyer belt."

Benjamin Franklin and James Poupard (according to Library of Congress page, linked above)

Why near Nauvoo? Because the Des Moines River rapids wouldn't allow ships to go further north up the Mississippi. "Various attempts to make the river navigable started in 1837 when a channel was blasted through the rapids by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers team led by Robert E. Lee. A canal around the rapids was built in 1877. It is now obliterated by Lock and Dam No. 19." Wikipedia

I also believe the Phoenicians are related to the Cherokee Indians and many others you may be surprised about. 

"The Phoenicians’ name in their own Semitic language translates as “Canaanite,” a reflection of their origins in the East Mediterranean. James Adair, who wrote the first book about American Indians in 1775, suggested this ethnonym (national identity) appears in the name of the Kanawha River and as the name of a now-extinct Indian tribe in Kentucky and West Virginia. Phoenicians are probably also the source of haplogroup X in the New World, and they are implicated in the mystery of the Melungeon people, with court cases mentioning them by name." Cherokee DNA Studies by Donald N. Yates

Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path. We are in contact with the people in Carthage (North Africa) who are very familiar with the PHOENICIA ship replica and Philip Beale. During the last two decades Wayne May has found a half a dozen oil lamps here in the Heartland. Our friends in Carthage recognize them as ancient lamps that their ancestors used to light their homes more than 2,000 years ago. We are going to look closely at this connection. We take it as a confirmation that the Phoenicians were in America in the 6th Century before Christ. Painting by Danielle Eubank of the Phoenicia ©2022 Heart Land Research Group | 2681 Milan Street Easton, PA 18045