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suggesting that this form of writing was universal at one time... even though the races and tribes responsible could not understand each other's languages and in most cases had little or no contact. Archaeologists studiously try to overlook the fact that some of these pictographs can be traced to ancient Mediterranean cultures. But the runic writing is quite distinct from the Indian petroglyphs. The runestones carry alphabetic symbols, while petroglyphs bear picture writing loosely related to the Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Kensington stone, as translated by Frederick Pohl, describes how ‘eight Goths and twenty- two Norwegians' established a camp. One group went fishing, and when they returned, they found the ten who had remained behind ‘red with blood and dead’. The year is given as 1362. Indian petroglyphs. on the other hand, were customarily devoted to traU information, where to find water, and the like. One Indian pictograph of particular interest is a complex design which has been found throughout North, Central, and South America. It depicts a series of squares inside one another. The Hop! Indians call this the Mother Earth Symbol. To the Pimas it is the House of Teuhu: to the Cunas in Panama it is the Tree of life. Anthropologist Harold Sterling Gladwin saw something else in it when he studied this symbol carved on the wall of Casa Grande, Arizona. In his book, Men Out of Asia, he noted that the Mother Earth symbol isidentical with the Minoan labyrinth depicted on coins from Knossos, Crete, circa 200 B.C. The famous labyrinth was said to have been built by Daedalus to hide the half-man, half-bull Minotaur. Dr Gladwin and Dr Clyde Keeler of Milledgeville, Georgia, both seem to think that the Indians’ use of the ancient labyrinth symbol is evidence of the influence of the early Minoan culture. In the eariy 1960s Angelos Galanopoulos, a Greek scientist, proposed still another theory for Atlantis. He suggested that sunken Minoan cities of Crete might have supplied the basis for the Atlantis legends. According to his theory, Plato got his dates wrong. Atlantis may have disappeared only a thousand or so years before the historian heard the tale, not nine thousand years before. It may have been one of the Greek islands, possibly Thera, Divers and archae- ologists working in the waters there in recent years have uncovered all kinds of evidence indicating that the Minoan culture came to a very abrupt end. So abrupt that craftsmen left their tools next to unfinished works and fled. The explanation currently in vogue is that a sudden volcanic eruption destroyed the islands. Dr Galanopoulos has been partially successful in matching Plato's description of Atlantis with what is now known about Thera. Dr Bruce C. Heezen, an oceanographer, believes that the eruption occurred around 1400 B.c. Needless to say, other scientists and schools loudly dispute this date. We do know that early Crete was the centre of an impressive culture, that great cities and temples were built there, and that it was a major naval power. It is not likely, however, that Crete and Thera could have lived up to Plato's description of the super-civilization of Atlantis. other artifacts scattered around this continent, wMch demonstrate that men from Europe and possibly from Crete and Thera did visit America in pre-Columbian times. It is even possible that Still we have all the perplexing evidence of the runestones and