Danforth sketched the rock, and his drawings are on display in the British Museum. Dighton Rock inscriptions. Photo: Morphart Creation/Shutterstock Ten years after Danforth's discovery ...

For example: "...not to mention the visit of still greater antiquity by the Phoenicians, who charged the Dighton Rock and other rocks in Narragansett Bay with Punic inscriptions." Historian Cora E.