Los Lunas Decalogue Stone debate

Record summary

The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone is a large boulder bearing an inscription that resembles the Ten Commandments in an alleged ancient Hebrew script. Although the stone’s location was known locally earlier, twentieth-century publicity and visits by researchers intensified claims that pre-Columbian Israelites reached New Mexico. Its uncertain discovery history, weathering, script, and lack of secure archaeological context have made it a recurring subject of controversy rather than accepted evidence. The lead permits comparison of landscape traditions, epigraphy, and confirmation bias in proposed Old World contact narratives.