Dismissed as fakes for a century, enigmatic Puerto Rican stones could rewrite history

A report by Jim Wyss for The Miami Herald. For more than a century, the fist-sized rocks etched with enigmatic patterns were ignored by academics and shunned by cultural power brokers. Discovered in Puerto Rico in the 1880s by a priest who was convinced they were a link to one of the Lost Tribes of Israel,…

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