#burrows cave

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The Burrows cave: African gold in Illinois

The story of the Burrows Cave is more about human behaviour than archaeology. It is the story of an alleged cave containing the tomb of an African king who reached North America in the 1st century AD – and the subsequent controversy that the artifacts created.

Every discovery has its dangers. In version one of our story, Russell Burrows accidentally discovered a cave along a branch of the Little Wabash River near his home town of Olney, Illinois, USA, in 1982. Hunting for discarded archaeological relics, he found a shallow cave leading into a subterranean corridor, the likes of which you'd not expect to find in rural Illinois. The passageway was lined with oil lamps, the ceiling black from smoke. The 500-foot-long tunnel had several chambers along it—but what it contained, Burrows was unwilling to divulge. In version two, in 1982 Burrows created a hoax: claiming to have discovered a tomb, he then tried to sell faked stone artefacts of his own making, which he'd copied from various books....

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Burrows cave artifacts

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Today we talk with Joe Wilson about his research into the modern hoax of Burrows' Cave. We look at the history of the cave, some of the evidence for the cave, and try to decipher where the cave is actually supposed to be.

Another great episode from ArchyFantasies!

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Burrows Cave/Pre-Columbian Chinese

  On this episode of Expanded Perspectives the guys talk about how King Tut’s beard was broken off the burial mask, it will now be repaired correctly, then some reasons why people never smiled in old photographs and DARPA’s new MAARS robot. Then after the break the guys talk about several cultures including the Chinese that were in the Americas long before Columbus. Then they discuss the…

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Magic caves in Illinois and other archaeological myths

Perhaps you have heard of Burrows Cave. I sort of hope you haven’t.

In the May 2012 issue of Public Archaeology, Joseph Wilson, a University of New Haven anthropologist, describes it as a phantasmagorical cave in southern Illinois that contains “life-sized solid-gold statues and a series of gigantic black stone statues in Egyptian and Carthaginian dress, solid gold sarcophagi and coffins containing mummies, stone sarcophagi, pagan idols, arsenals of bronze weapons, suits of armor ...” It goes on, but you get the idea.

Why haven’t you read about this amazing discovery in National Geographic or seen it on the History Channel? Burrows Cave has been largely ignored by archaeologists because there is no evidence to back up any of the extravagant claims made about the site. Read more.