Keywords: Bat-creek-inscription.jpg en The Bat Creek inscription as recorded by Cyrus Thomas in 1894 The inscription was found on a stone excavated by a Smithsonian mound survey team in the Little Tennessee Valley Loudon County Tennessee in the southeastern United States Proponents of Pre-Columbian transatlantic contact argue that the inscription is actually Paleo-Hebrew 12th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890-1891 1894 Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology Government Printing Office Washington D C Cyrus H Thomas 1894 PD-USGov Bat Creek inscription |