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| Investigations into this unusual rock carving have uncovered that an ancient Greek celestial calendar had been carved into it. The rock carving dubbed Jesus Watch by those who found it was discovered on a Northland farm recently. Credit - Aukland local news |
A new book by pre-historians Maxwell C Hill and Gary Cook, with Dargaville shipwreck explorer Noel Hilliam titled "To the End of the Earth" is turning many heads in New Zealand since it claims that Greek-Egyptians and other explorers sailed to and settled here long before the arrival of the Maori people and the birth of Christ!
The 378-page book which made its debut last weekend has already caused a lot of controversy from historians who claim that the writers have no experience in history, archeology and anthropology but the writers say they are convinced after finding skeletons, buildings, a carving of an ancient Greek ship in Taupo and a stone pillar with an accurate map of New Zealand which depicts Lake Taupo in its pre-eruption era (dated between 180B.C. - 240 B.C.). This evidence, claim Hill and Cook, all attest to people of European origin living on this Pacific country for hundreds of years before the arrival of Polynesians.
The book also features interviews with two descendants of pre-Maori settlers in New Zealand. The first interview is with a Waitaha descendant who apparently carries the ancient title of Upoko Ariki (chief of chiefs). The latter prefers to be known by his English name of George Connelly, but insists that his ancestors arrived on New Zealand via Easter Island from Peru at about 450AD and have been here ever since. The second interview is the Moriori chief Philip Ranga who notes that his people sailed to this country in the waka Aotea which was around 1150AD, and also hundreds of years before the arrival of the Moriori.
Reference - http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/dargaville-districts/6497943/Greeks-got-here-first
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