In 1837 the former diplomat, popular playwright and journalist Mordecai Manuel Noah published “Discourses on the Evidences of the American Indians Being the Descendants of Lost Tribes of Israel.” ...

At the time, Jews in colonial America took the Lost Tribes claim very seriously–they reacted in sermons, plays, public statements, scholarly works, and popular writings.

The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel have fascinated historians, theologians, and explorers for centuries. After the Assyrian conquest of the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE, these tribes were said ...

The Lost Tribes of the Amazon. Often described as “uncontacted,” isolated groups living deep in the South American forest resist the ways of the modern world—at least for now ...

Rabbi Harry Rozenberg, the Israeli-American founder of the school, joins a lineage of Jewish seekers who are trying to bring about the “prophetic reunion” of “lost tribes” with modern Jews ...

The Lost Tribes of the Amazon Often described as “uncontacted,” isolated groups living deep in the South American forest resist the ways of the modern world—at least for now ...

Linguist Elizabeth Little took a two-year trip across the U.S. in search of the country's lost languages. The resulting book is Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's ...

A vast series of earth mounds on the eastern coast of South America may be living landscape fossils of a forgotten civilization’s agriculture. People raised the mounds between 1,000 and 700 ...