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Marco Polo discovered America 200 years before Colombus, according to map
AFP via translation ^ | August 9, 2007

Posted on 08/09/2007 3:28:45 AM PDT by HAL9000

Possible discovered of America by Marco Polo before Colomb: account in VSD

'America - its West coast - would have been discovered by Marco Polo some 200 years before Christophe Colomb, according to a chart of the Library of the Congress in Washington examined since 1943 by the FBI and whose history is told in published review VSD Wednesday. This document, brought to the Library in 1933 by Marcian Rossi, an American naturalized citizen originating in Italy, “represents a boat beside a chart showing part of India, China, Japan, the Eastern Indies and North America”, indicates the report/ratio of the librarian of the time.

Called “Map-with-ship” (Chart with a boat), this document carries “a blazon drawn under the ship, an intersection of letters giving a name: Marco Polo. The strait which separates Siberia from Alaska is the principal subject of the chart”, notes the author of the article of VSD, the author and realizer Thierry Secretan.

This one tells that an examination carried out into 1943 with the ultraviolet rays by the FBI, American safety, “made it possible to establish the presence of three inkings on this chart, which was thus modernized in time”. The report/ratio evokes several assumptions, of which the possibility that “Marco Polo, who returned to Venice in 1295, reported in Europe the first information on the existence of North America, others that those acquired by the Scandinavian explorers”.

“If this chart is well of Marco Polo, it arrived to America two centuries before Colomb and drew the strait which separates Asia from America four centuries before this last does not appear on the European charts”, Thierry Secretan underlines.

The discovery of America is allotted to Christophe Colomb, in 1492.

Marco Polo, who forever spoken in the relation about his voyages of any discovered of ground in the zone of Alaska, said to his friends on his bed of dead: “I did not write half of what I saw”, Thierry Secretan recalls.



TOPICS: Japan; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 1492; ageofsail; alaska; america; ancientnavigation; benjaminbolshin; cartography; china; christophercolumbus; columbus; columbusday; discovery; epigraphyandlanguage; fusang; gavinmenzies; godsgravesglyphs; india; italy; japan; marcianrossi; marcopolo; navigation; newworld; thierrysecretan; worldhistory
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To: HAL9000

Marco


21 posted on 08/09/2007 7:23:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: HAL9000

22 posted on 08/09/2007 7:31:48 AM PDT by Between the Lines (I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations.)
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To: driftdiver

Ya, and they made it across Canada and down the Northwest Coast.... and then there are those mooring stones in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Illinois, and the eastern seaboard.
Then how about the Arizona turquiose in Egyptian tombs? How did it get there???


23 posted on 08/09/2007 11:09:53 AM PDT by g33k355 ("He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.")
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To: dfwgator

POLO


24 posted on 08/09/2007 11:11:36 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Satan is working both sides of the street in World Socialism and World Courts.)
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To: HAL9000

All true. Marco Polo sailed up and down the west coast of America and nearly reached Greenland via the route over Alaska before the Northwest Passage froze over.


25 posted on 08/09/2007 11:13:06 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: wolfcreek

“There have been digs on the east coast where artifacts show man traveled here from Europe 20,000 yrs ago.”

Have you got an example?


26 posted on 08/09/2007 11:15:17 AM PDT by stormer
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To: g33k355

Solomon had gold mines in S America and N America, in particular California the site of the goldrush a couple thousand years later. He, and the Egyptians, sailed east to America.


27 posted on 08/09/2007 11:16:43 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: RightWhale

Right on! So why do historians want to credit Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus with discovering the American continents? They were known about long before these 2 yahoos.


28 posted on 08/09/2007 11:19:36 AM PDT by g33k355 ("He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.")
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To: MrBambaLaMamba
La découverte de l'Amérique est attribuée à Christophe Colomb

At the time about seven European powers were trading with the Americas and all were keeping their routes secret. The Portuguese had several trading posts in S America, and the English in N America. Norway had a blockade against all prohibiting sailing trade with N America but the English and others took their chances when they could. It was a hot claim and brought a revolution in the power of the Church.

29 posted on 08/09/2007 11:22:30 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: blam; SunkenCiv
ping.
30 posted on 08/09/2007 11:22:55 AM PDT by colorado tanker (I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
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To: g33k355

It’s entirely political, or was. It doesn’t matter now, but at the time trade with America was vitally important to be kept secret. Columbus broke it all open, and in favor of Spain.


31 posted on 08/09/2007 11:25:27 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: HAL9000

EVERYBODY discovered america first.

the Egyptians, the ancient Greeks, the Chinese it is just getting plain SILLY.


32 posted on 08/09/2007 11:38:56 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: HAL9000
The old boy got around. The Library of Congress catalog for "Rossi, Marcian":

LC Control No.: 20022794
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.
Personal Name: Rossi, Marcianus Filomeno, 1869- [from old catalog]
Main Title: A trip to Mars
Published/Created: [San Jose, Calif., Smith McKay] c1920.
Description: 4 p.l., 5-92 p. plates. 20 cm.

33 posted on 08/09/2007 11:39:39 AM PDT by nicollo (you're freakin' out!)
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To: g33k355

If Jesus was a Jew why does he have a Mexican name?


34 posted on 08/09/2007 11:45:54 AM PDT by satan
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To: HAL9000

Just noticed I misspelled Columbus in the headline.


35 posted on 08/09/2007 12:27:40 PM PDT by HAL9000 (http://LinksToNewsSources.GooglePages.com)
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To: stormer; wolfcreek
Topper (Archaeological Site)

"Topper is an archaeological site located along the Savannah River in Allendale County, South Carolina in the United States. It is noted as the location of controversial artifacts believed by some archaeologists to indicate human habitation of the New World as far back as 50,000 years ago."

Meadowcroft Rock Shelter

Calico: A 200,000 Year Old Site In The Americas?

36 posted on 08/09/2007 1:01:41 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

Thanks, Blam! Wasn’t there some American artifacts found in Europe suggesting they must of been here pre-Clovis?


37 posted on 08/09/2007 1:39:31 PM PDT by wolfcreek (2 bad Tyranny, Treachery and Treason never take a vacation...)
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To: colorado tanker; blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; ..
Thanks colorado tanker. I'm sure I'd never before heard of this.

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38 posted on 08/09/2007 10:05:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Thursday, August 9, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Thermalseeker

Where do you get 20,000,000?


39 posted on 08/09/2007 10:11:35 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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To: RaceBannon

The United States of Polo?
Sure, why not?
Either way, it was an Italian. Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus or Amerigo Vespucci, for which the two continents are named. The only guy missing is Julius Caesar. I’m sure research will eventually show that Caesar got lost on his way to Sicily during the Punic Wars and wound up in the North End of Boston.


40 posted on 08/09/2007 11:50:50 PM PDT by Paisan
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