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  • No Chinese ruins in Cape Breton: archeologists

    07/30/2006 8:17:06 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies · 357+ views
    CBC News ^ | Thursday, July 27, 2006 | unattributed
    Cape Breton-born architect Paul Chiasson says... there's a road, a three-kilometre-long wall that snakes down a hill and stone platforms, all of which look similar to Chinese structures. In his book, The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered North America, Chiasson concludes that explorers from China built the settlement. The claim was so provocative, David Christianson, curator of archeology with the Nova Scotia Museum, and four other archeologists headed out to the site to investigate for themselves. They concluded there was no settlement at all... The archeologists say Chiasson's wall is really a fire break...