Posted on 07/09/2015 4:50:03 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
The discovery of the Americas has for centuries been credited to the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, but ancient markings carved into rocks around the US could require history to be rewritten.
Researchers have discovered ancient scripts that suggest Chinese explorers may have discovered America long before Europeans arrived there.
They have found pictograms etched into the rocks around the country that appear to belong of an ancient Chinese script.
John Ruskamp, a retired chemist and amateur epigraph researcher from Illinois, discovered the unusual markings while walking in the Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque,
He claims they indicate ancient people from Asia were present in the Americas around 1,300BC – nearly 2,800 years before Columbus's ships stumbled across the New World by reaching the Caribbean in 1492.
He said: 'These ancient Chinese writings in North America cannot be fake, for the markings are very old as are the style of the scripts.
'As such the findings of this scientific study confirm that ancient Chinese people were exploring and positively interacting with the Native peoples over 2,500 years ago.
'The pattern of the finds suggests more of an expedition than settlement.'
However, his controversial views have been met with scepticism by many experts who point to the lack of archaeological evidence for any ancient Chinese presence in the New World.
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Yea whatever.
Kon-Tiki
If they did, it was only Columbus who informed the rest of the world this awesome place exists and it stayed that way...
Luckily, he didn’t plant The Flag of Dixie on this great land or he would be erased from memory, never to be spoke of again and made completely irrelevant
America was discovered by a fellow named Harry Mastadon. . . He can't help if that he always gets frozen by stage fright when asked to speak before large groups, so he just didn't announce it. Besides, brushing his tusks takes so long he keeps missing the meeting of the Siberian Chapter of the Paleolithic Geographic Society where he was scheduled to make his announcement of what is on the other side of that land bridge. . .
“1421”
Thanks, got it on order from my library.
Maybe we should give it back to the Vikings. Let Sharpton make his reparations case to them. :)
That is why an Eskimo in the north looks a lot like a Chilean to the south.
well maybe but they certainly didn’t capitalize on the discovery. we did. and they discovered gunpowder but someone else put it in front of a bullet and they discovered pasta but look at what the Italians did with that. when you go ino a chinese restaurant all you see is noodles.
I’ve seen indigenous people in Taiwan that dress in the ancient customs - eerily similar to North American Indians
You would probably like Barry Fell too. Many were here prior to Columbus. The Basques fished the Grand Bankss for centuries prior to chris.
In 1910, researchers found Roman artifacts in Arizona
I think they may have come via the northern access (at the time)through Canada but never came south of Wisconsin.
I also think it’s likely that a ship from India landed near where the original colonists landed and long before they did.
Might explain the unusual Indian tribes the colonists found on the east coast when they landed...but I am certainly no expert on this..just stuff I have read.
It was a hoax.
Look. This is how it happened. A few thousand years ago, Some native American kids were bored one day. While painting pictures of aliens and ufos, they made some chicken scratch doodles on the rock. Years passed and the degradation of the chicken scratches got weathered into a mess of lines that resemble chinese words. Remember this guy is an “ amateur”so he reads the pictographs much like a Rorschach ink blot. He doesnt get a professional chinese linguist to come read it and render an expert opinion.
I read of a Chinese explorer ca 2200 BC claim that after a long voyage he came to a land (Fusang) that had a spectacular mountain and was covered with forests. A couple of centuries later, an emperor read his report, declared it a fantasy and ordered it destroyed, but a few copies were saved.
Some years ago researchers used his narrative and said his "spectacular mountain" was Mount Hood and his trip could be traced down to California using his landmarks and rate of travel between them. They were intrigued by his description of coming to a "great chasm" in the land when they went inland and speculated that he might have seen the Grand Canyon. A Helluva long haul, but you never know.
If all of this is true, his discovery was not forgotten, just ridiculed, which is even worse than being forgotten. Lots of books on this interesting theory.
Personally, I think others were here from East and West but were either killed off, absorbed by the locals, or as in the Fusang case, not believed and discarded. I would think mitochondrial DNA among the Indians here might prove it conclusively one way or the other.
You’re kidding, right?
Tell us, please . . if the white man had not “discovered America” and instead, eventually the Chinese or Japanese did . .
How many American Indians do you think would be alive today?
I’ll await your answer . .
I read Menzez’ ‘1421’ shortly after it came out. Quite good.
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