The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone


This is a comprehensive gallery of the Los Lunas Decalogue Stone. I took all of these photographs myself. The stone, a very large boulder, sits sunken into the side of a remote mountain in central New Mexico, near the town of Los Lunas. On its face is a large inscription of the ten commandments (the Decalogue) written in an ancient proto-Hebraic script. The stone was first scientifically observed in 1933. There are unconfirmed reports that it had been observed reliably in the mid 1800's. Barry Fell's excellent book America B.C.-Ancient Settlers in the New World is a thorough study of the Decalogue Stone and other American archeological mysteries, which makes it quite clear that our knowledge of American prehistory is shady at best.

I want to point out that this could be an old hoax, and some sources report that there are errors in the language that prove this. Meanwhile, other sources use these supposed linguistic errors as evidence that the inscription is legitimate. The authenticity of the stone has never been proven nor has it been confirmed false, something rather rare in the world of archaeology (generally hoaxes are found out). Carbon dating is impossible because the original patina was scrubbed off in the 30's.


One more note: there are substantial rock ruins on top of the mountain, which I unfortunately didn't photograph, which are unlike any other found in the area. They really don't look, or feel, like Native American ruins.