It was just another weekend in the craft market of Antigua, where the Maya villagers bring their wares to entice the passing tourists. Located next to the spectacular baroque ruin that was the church known as El Carmen, perhaps twenty vendors spread their offerings on the cobblestone street. Paintings, jewelry and bright-colored fabrics are the norm but on one Maya lady’s blanket is a box of broken Mayan ceramics. Scattered amidst small beige-colored pieces of pottery was what appeared to be an oil lamp of unknown provenance and a small dun-colored vase that seemed to have been formed on a potter’s wheel.
Could these be remnants or perhaps some indication that what the Mormon Church has been trying to prove for years, that there was a landing in Central America thousands of years ago by a lost tribe of Israel?
Likewise, parallels between cultural traits of the ancient Near East and Mesoamerica perhaps indicate transoceanic contacts between the two regions. Among these are such minor secondary traits as horned incense burners, models of house types, wheel-made
pottery”(Reachouttrust.org,)
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