The OP article claims that the old “Marco Polo brought it back from China” story is a myth.
Well.....that’s news to me. Of course.....there are people saying lots of things we learned in history class....back in the 1950s.....are no longer true. They’d even like us to go so far as to believe that Christ never arose from the dead, either.
I’ll stick with what I learned back when educators still gave a hoot.....when we started the school day with the reading of Scripture, The Lord’s Prayer and The Pledge of Allegiance. These clowns who think all intelligent things have only been done in the last 50 years! How many CENTURIES ago did Newton and Pythagorus and Euclid complete their work?
A glittering example of modern-day ignorance is the commercial for the Rosetta Stone language system. The illiterate clods who do the commercials....have NO CLUE what the Rosetta Stone was, or when it was discovered, or why it is significant. The proof that they don’t know ANYTHING about it is that they pronounce it as though it were a woman’s name....with the emphasis on STONE instead of on the ETTA in RosETTA, which is where it belongs....if you are aware that THE Rosetta Stone was actually a STONE, and not merely a fictitious female name! Look THAT up in your Funk & Wagnalls!