Title: Discovery of ancient America
Description: The book is divided into two sections. I - The Hidden Mountain Inscriptions and II - TheAppendices
Part 1 has 9 chapters. The Secret of Hidden Mountain, The Inscriptions, Who and When?, Authenticity, Ancient Americas Visited, The Remembrance of Contact, The Long-voyage Ships, The Expedition and Aztlan the Legend of Atlantis.
Part 2 has 6 chapters. Who Were Toltecas?, The Maya, Alphabet Lists, Old World Technology in the New World, Summary and Geology Report.

Deal uses photographs and drawings and graphs to illustrate his points and to make his case and it all seems quite logical and convincing except that it flies in the face of what we have been taught all our lives about American history on the one hand and about Judaism and its development on the other.  My conclusion is that it is all quite plausible, I never truly believed in most of the history I have been taught anyway.  And I am going to visit Mystery Mountain before I get much older or it gets much colder around here.

Paragraph one of the book sets the tone, so I quote verbatim:
On the right bank of the Rio Puercos, some 30 miles southwest of Albuquerque, in the brown, barren waste of Valencia County, New Mexico, stands a volcanic mesa. The people in the general area call it "Hidden Mountain" of "Mystery Mountain" but the Indians retain its more ancient title, "Cerro Los Moqujino" ("Cliff of the Strange Writings"). These names aptly apply, for upon its slopes a secret is revealed that, if accepted, would change the basic concepts upon which ancient American history is built. Few even dare its challenge. Nevertheless, the emerging evidence compels us to conclude that this wilderness region was in ancient times visited by adventurers from the Middle East.

Paragraph three of the book lays it all out there for us to see right from the beginning. and I quote:
At first one might casually dismiss these ruins as some relic of a band of ancient Indians that roamed the area. But closer examination of the details make such a conclusion patently amiss. Comparison of the building formations with other Indian sites proves them unique in the Americas but surprisingly similar to finds in the Middle East. Yet the greatest shock, causing much disbelief and offhanded accusations of fraud, comes from the accompanying inscriptions found at the site. Lying along the winding trail, leading to the camp site on top of the mountain, juts a fallen outcropping of native, igneous basalt. On its face is carved an inscription in ancient letters. Another short inscription is found at the summit of the mountain. The words chiseled on these rocks are without a doubt ancient Hebrew. The greater inscription recites the Ten Commandments; the smaller reads "Yahweh is our Mighty One". The ramifications of these words, if authentically composed by an ancient scribe, are enormous, giving direct proof that a connection anciently existed between the Americas, through explorations of mariners, with the Middle East. The evidence would tend to indicate naval power for some countries as early as 3500 years ago. It is within this framework that we must examine the ten commandments of New Mexico.

Interestingly, similarly suggestive evidence of these same truths have been discovered in Wisconsin and Tennessee, in the Yucatan and in Guatemala none of which is mentioned in the book.
Subjects: Antiquities, Discovery and exploration, Indians of North America, Inscriptions, Lost tribes of Israel, Pre-Columbian, Language comparisons.
Places: Albuquerque Region, Albuquerque Region (N.M.), America, New Mexico, the Middle East
Time periods: suggests proof of occurrences that took place 3500 years ago