Posted on 01/13/2008 3:25:31 AM PST by Daffynition
BEIJING, January 11 (RIA Novosti) - A Mongolian professor of history has said America was discovered by the Mongolians and not Christopher Columbus, as is popularly believed, the Xinhua news agency reported late on Thursday.
Professor Sumiya Jambaldorj from the Genghis Khan University in the Mongolian capital, UIan Bator, performed a study proving the similarity between American place names and words in the Mongolian language.
"About 8,000 to 25,000 years ago, Mongols with stone tools crossed the Aleutian Islands and arrived in America," Jambaldorj was reported as saying.
The academic said that over 20 place names in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands could be Mongolian.
"Many names of places and rivers in the U.S. state of Alaska are believed to be Mongolian," he said.
The news agency said there were similar words in a Native American language and Mongolian, e.g. "hagaan," which means "ancestor" in Mongolian.
Jambaldorj said there was much in common between the ancestors of the Mongolians and the Native Americans, adding that some types of stone tools found in the Aleutian Islands had also been discovered in the Gobi desert area of Mongolia.
How will we ever know? The drive by media wasn’t around and besides, I only believe it if I saw it on CNN and retold to me by Disney. ;)
Celts before the Maoris????????
Source: NZ Press (online)
Published: 1/11/00 Author: Unknown
Posted on 01/11/2000 05:18:08 PST by janus
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a387b2d90476c.htm
Baffling Viking Artifacts Found in Cave
Source: FOX News
Published: 15 January 2000 Author: Reuters
Posted on 01/15/2000 13:51:01 PST by advocate10
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3880ebc53cf0.htm
Explorer From China Who ‘Beat Columbus To America’
The Telegraph (UK) | 3-4-2002 | Elizabeth Grice
Posted on 03/04/2002 6:24:49 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/639813/posts
Who Really Discovered America?
Hope Of Israel
Posted on 07/14/2002 5:08:47 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/716088/posts
Who really discovered America? (Evidence that the Jews did!)
Far Shores - Ancient Mysteries | FR Post - April 13 2004 | William F. Dankenbring
Posted on 04/13/2004 9:26:18 AM EDT by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1116677/posts
Were Chinese here first? (china; menzies; 1421)
NewsAdvance.com | May 15, 2005 | Shannon Brennan
Posted on 05/16/2005 6:35:42 AM EDT by SteveH
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403964/posts
Carthage: Forgotten
Posted on 07/26/2005 4:20:19 AM EDT by onja
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1450597/posts
Oh, and good riddance:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~prost1/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1821546/posts?page=33#33
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