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...great rivers to Iowa and the Dakotas; he says the ancient burial mounds found in many parts of the Midwest and the East are actually the work of the same ancient voyagers. A clay tablet found in a mound in Iowa carries identical messages in three languages: Egyptian, Punic, and Libyan, Fell claims. The publicists for America B.C. like to compare Fell's translation of this tablet to Champollion's 19th century translation of the Rosetta Stone, which enabled archeologists to read Egyptian hieroglyphics...
According to Fell the Pima Indians of the Southwest speak a Semitic tongue acquired from Iberian Punic colonists who came 2500 years ago, and the Zunis of Arizona speak a language derived directly from Libyan, with a vocabulary composed of elements from Coptic, Middle Egyptian, and Nubian...
...effort to prevent that, Fradier hopes to excavate 1,000 acres of ruins. The Punic port at nearby Salambo (from which the Carthaginian navy controlled the Mediterranean) would be returned to its historical appearance and would double as a yacht basin. In Carthage itself, a Roman theater would be refurbished to serve for modern dramas. Statuary would be restored, as would the baths of Antoninus...
...archaeologists, using special electronic equipment, has charted 120 acres of ruins in three months, a job that would have taken six years using traditional methods. To encourage other foreign archaeologists to excavate Carthage, the Tunisian government has promised them that they can keep or borrow a portion of their Punic and Roman finds. "With scientific digging," declares UNESCO's Fradier, "Carthage can be completely restored in 15 to 20 years. So far as tourists are concerned, in two or three years we'll have put Carthage back...
...About those pundits on your staff and elsewhere: since antiquity, Pundora's Box has loosed upun us many a punatic with an overproductive puncreas who has wrought pundemonium (remember the Punic Wars). Have you no pungs of conscience? Your puny puntomimes are sure signs of mental puntrefaction! But the punneymoon is over-it now behooves the punblic to take pun in hand to try to puncture with punpoint accuracy their impunetrable hides...