Ohio's Strange Connection to the Lost Continent of Mu
Inscribed stones allegedly from the lost continent of Mu were discovered in a basement in 2014. Anthropology Professor Dr. Jeb Card from Miami University discusses what was found.
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Ohio's Strange Connection to the Lost Continent of Mu
The 2nd Lecture in the Fort Ancient Winter Lecture Series presented by Dr. Jeb Card, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Assistant for Special Projects at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
A chance discovery in 2014 unearthed clues to a bizarre story of myth, history, and archaeology. Inscribed stones with fragments of writing from the Lost Continent of Mu were discovered in a basement at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio during the creation of a college course on the practice and ethics of art and archaeology. These were part of an ancient library in Central Mexico, and the best evidence for the Lost Continent of Mu. And like the Continent, the tablets had also gone missing, making their rediscovery all the more amazing.
The only problem is: The Lost Continent of Mu never existed.
How did these tablets come to be? What have we learned about them? What can they tell us about the history of archaeology and its development as a profession? What’s the cultural context for these weird stones? And how did they end up in a basement in Oxford, Ohio?
About Dr. Jeb Card:
Jeb J. Card is a Visiting Assistant Professor and the Assistant for Special Projects at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Prior to coming to Ohio, he was the 2008 Visiting Scholar at the Center for Archaeological Inquiry at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, where he organized a conference that became the volume The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture. This theme was an extension of Card’s doctoral work, completed at Tulane University in 2007, on the ceramics from Ciudad Vieja, the first permanent Spanish site in El Salvador. In addition to colonial archaeology, Card has recently published the analysis of the first Maya hieroglyphic historical document found in El Salvador and has excavated at the monumental center of Campana San Andres. Card has also worked on archaeological projects in Yucatan, New York, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. More recently Card has been exploring the weird side of archaeology and how it engages with the public. In 2012 he co-organized a session on Alternative Archaeology at the Society for American Archaeology meetings, and this led to the 2016 book Lost City, Found Pyramid: Alternative Archaeology and Pseudoscientific Practices, co-edited with David Anderson. Most recently, Card has submitted the final draft of a book entitled Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past, which will be published by the University of New Mexico Press at the end of 2017.
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