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.
So, THAT’S where we got the Orange Julius!
Don't know about any artifacts.
Old Egyptian mummies were found to contain Cocaine and Nicotine in their systems...both of those are New World products.
Don't know about any artifacts.
Old Egyptian mummies were found to contain Cocaine and Nicotine in their systems...both of those are New World products.
There's a rumor that Arizona turquoise has been found in Egyptian tombs but, I don't believe it.
Then there’s the fact that Columbus was a Messianic Jew, an offensive thought on so many levels. Can’t have that in our multicultural, PC society.
Last sentence, third paragraph.
Of course he could have copied the information on the map from Chines or other sources when he visited Asia.
That figure is the often quoted estimated population of indigenous humans on this continent when Columbus stumbled on the "new world".
The area I live in alone had large populations over a long period of time as evidenced by the number of artifacts that are uncovered (i.e., mounds, pottery, arrowheads, flint drills, etc) almost every day. You can hardly turn a spade of dirt here in the Sequatchie Valley without finding woodlands era artifacts. Paleo artifacts are a bit more rare, but they are found fairly regularly by those who look.
Well, I was being a bit silly, but I guess it just irks me when folks talk about Columbus "discovering" America as if nobody ever knew this continent was here. Millions of folks knew it was here, they just didn't bother to pass the word to Europe......
That point of view is not popular here. It has to involve white people or it does not count.
There was no Europe. There were countless kingdoms in that place and most of them knew about America and several were already engaged in trade with America. Each was keeping its dealings with America secret from the rest in hopes of retaining trade advantages.
Try SunkenCiv's ping list. We have very open minds about pre-history.
Beware unskilled translators. Learn to read between the lines.
The discovery of America is attributed to Christopher Columbus, in 1492.
The key is ... who followed up on their discovery in a big way -- and that was the Spaniards. It doesn't matter who discovered America if only a group of people knew about it and did nothing with the information.
Hadn't a clue.
You could say that even the Indians didn't discover America.
No doubt the guy who drew it was from Korea so he made it the biggest feature. Not only that he made the Southern tip of the peninsula quite large. That's the place marked Kamchatka.
The landmass to the right someone marked Alaska is actually Japan.
Got several such examples ~ Clovis points are clearly derived from the European tradition.
The United States of Polo?
Polo, Ohio?
What about the Chinese characters on the map?
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