Case file · Folklore / legend
The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone
A boulder on Hidden Mountain near Los Lunas, New Mexico, carved with a nine-line version of the Ten Commandments in a form of Paleo-Hebrew, was described by archaeologist Frank Hibben, who said he was shown it in 1933.
1933 CE · 34.79, -106.83 · status: hoax
The account
Supporters claim it proves ancient Israelite contact with the Americas; some locals say it was known in the 1880s.
The sceptical view
Archaeologists point to modern letter forms, crisp carving and the lack of any associated settlement; it is generally treated as a 20th-century hoax.