Egyptians in Ohio?

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1977

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Archaeological Society of Ohio

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A small broadside is reproduced, illustrating a gold plate bearing pseudo-Egyptian hieroglyphics and allegedly found in a Cincinnati well by Benjamin Styles in the 1850s. It and a similar hollow brass hemisphere with similar glyphs, found in Darke Co., Ohio (Landis 1937) is also dismissed as an archaeological hoax. As for the manufacturer, since Styles was a tinsmith, he is a likely suspect.

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Egyptian Hieroglyphics (Ohio), Archaeological Hoaxes (Ohio)

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James L. Murphy, "Egyptians in Ohio?" Ohio Archaeologist 27, no. 4 (Fall 1977): 12-13.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37102

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