2020/02/16 – Ron Rademacher – Meet the Macintosh Stone…. Why Should We Care?

Show Page Fast links to Items:  Richard  –  Ron Fast links to Bios: Ron Ok, here’s part of the puzzle of the “Macintosh Stone” …. One day in the mid-80’s, a mineral collector in northern Michigan named Charlie Macintosh was working a cliff about 50 feet above Lake Superior; as usual, he put the good stones he dug out of the dirt in a bag and, once back home, began giving them a much-needed cleaning, before he began polishing …. Then, he stopped. One of the smaller stones … about the width of two dimes — like a million others Charlie had picked up all the years before — was different– It was covered in tiny “hieroglyphics!” Thus began a major mystery– What was a tiny, ancient-looking “amulet” — a carved stone covered in what appeared to be Middle Eastern “writing” — doing, half-buried — across thousands of years, and [...]