My wife and I had a chance to visit the Decalogue Stone at Los Lunas, New Mexico yesterday. If you don't know much about this ancient Hebrew artifact, you can review these links: http://unexplainedmysteriesoftheworld.com/archives/the-mystery-of-the-los-lunas-decalogue-stone
http://www.revelationsofthebible.com/LosLunas.htm http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/15_williamson.html Arguments against the stone's authenticity question the fact that this is not the complete Decalogue, but Archaeologist Cyrus Gordon counters this with his proposition that the Los Lunas Decalogue is in fact an ancient mezuzah. One thing that I noticed as I examined the stone, that seems to confirm this idea that the stone is in fact a kind of mezuzah, is the direction of the cleavage cracks in the stone compared to the predominant cleavage you can notice in the host rock. If you rotate the rock to line up with the cleavage in the host rock behind the Los Lunas Decalogue Stone, the writing on the Decalogue Stone becomes perfectly horizontal, and raises the stone about 6 feet into the air - possibly higher (see picture). You can almost imagine people walking under it as they traveled from just below in the river area to the settlement above. This area where the rock is located is right beside a tributary to the Rio Grand river and one of the ancient pictographs above the stone includes the name of the tribe Dan. So it seems possible that the tribe of Dan may have in fact been exploring America (possibly with their Phoenician partners), navigated up the Rio Grand, built a settlement here in the Los Lunas area, and placed this stone as a mezuzah to the entrance to their settlement. The way rivers meander back and fourth within a river valley, I could almost picture the river flowing right past their doorstep at that time. If anyone has any thoughts, let me know. Great Shalom Bruce Paul
