This chapter gives a summary of the the Minoan voyages crossed the Atlantic with the Equatorial Current. After visiting Yucatan, the current would carry them north to the Mississippi Delta, where they discovered that today’s ‘land of opportunity’ was even then a land of unimaginable riches. They could see float copper being used by the people of Poverty Point, who were international traders. At Poverty Point they were told of the original source of the copper in the Great Lakes: particularly at Lake Superior. They built a stone observatory on Beaver Island to fix the latitude and longitude of this incredible treasure and drew up a map. Then they set up an entire system to bring the riches back to Europe – creating protected townships for the miners with summer and winter quarters.
The copper was loaded on to rafts and floated down the Mississippi via Lake Michigan where the kilns awaited them. The rafts were broken up to be used for charcoal: the copper was turned into ingots before they’d even left, and stored to await collection by Minoan ships which crossed the Atlantic.
