Did you ever hear of the Burrows Cave? The year was 1982 and the site was southern Illinois. A man named Russell Burrows, also from Illinois claims to have discovered a marvelous cave that was filled with artifacts which were said to be thousands of years old and from as far away as ancient Egypt. The cave is said to contain many inscribed stones that contain a language that has never been seen in any finds in Illinois before. At first, as the stones were examined, it was thought that the inscriptions may have been some kind of hoax because the wording on the stones didn't seem to make any sense, even though the writing seemed to be in several different ancient languages. There is a new thinking on this subject by some scientists that the stones may contain an ancient language that proceeds but resembles some of the ancient languages of the past such as Egyptian and Libian, among several others.

But how did Burrows discover this cave. The story that is related is that Burrows stepped on a flat rock which swung open and jammed. Its said this was lucky for him because the rock was over a chamber and was designed to allow someone to fall into the chamber and swing closed over them trapping them.

The carved stones that were found in the cave seem very crude, but some contain images of what seem to be, Egyptian Coffins, another carving resembles the famous Olmec Head of Mexico. It is also said there were miniature heads of the type found on Easter Island and Goddesses with Lions or Ram's heads which are also similar to the ancient Egyptian Gods.

Not everyone believes the articles from this cave are genuine. As a matter of fact many archeologists refuse to certify them as genuine. A controversy has raged among the archeological community since the discovery of the cave was announced. But stones, coins and artifacts were not the only things found in the cave, there were also bodies. But who's bodies are they? Could they be the original people who put the artifacts into the cave? There are different theories on that subject but some speculate the coins prove that the period when the cave was originally used was sometime right after the period of Cleopatra, and some even think that one of the bodies is the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony. Now wouldn't that be interesting, imagine Cleopatra's daughter buried in the new world. I guess that old Chris Columbus's ghost is not too happy over this thought. This would make even the Vikings late comers.

There have been other mysterious finds of artifacts that seem out of place in this country. The ancient Chinese stone anchors off the coast of California just to mention one. It may turn out that this continent was visited many times and even colonized many times in the course of thousands of years. Well maybe someday we will know for sure.