Vatican Reveals Secret Archives

Telegraph(UK) ^ | January 02nd 2010 | Nick Squires

[Steelfish]

Yes, I stand corrected.

[Poe White Trash]

"The book documents the Roman Catholic Church’s often hostile dealings with the world of science and the arts..."

No bias here. /sarc

[hennie pennie]

Do you have a link for the article, "Did Marco Polo Go to China?" -- or else, do you recall what magazine/journal it was in?

Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

It's a book, I bought it used, the author just bitches all the way through it, then pulls up just before she augers in. It falls along the lines, since George Washington didn't chop down the cherry tree, he obviously never existed.

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Did Marco Polo Go To China? by Frances Wood Hardcover Paperback	The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo by Jacob D'Ancona tr by David Selbourne	Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng by Xin Xu tr by Beverly Friend illus by Ting Cheng reviewed	Christians in China: A.D. 600 to 2000 by Father Jean Charbonnier, contributions by David Notley, tr. by M. N. L. Couve de Murville

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[SunkenCiv]

Wow! Perdogg, you magnificent, well, you know...

[Rebelbase]

Ghengis Khan asked Marco Polo’s uncle to bring back Christian scholars to teach the mongol people.

When Uncle Polo returned from his first trip he went to the Vatican and explained a vast empire of heathens wanted Christian education. The Vatican responded by providing three fat friars who all bailed out on the Polo expedition in Turkey and Syria.

Ponder world history had their been a successful conversion of the Mongols to Christianity.

[eleni121]

Marco Polo never got to China...he probably made it Constantinople where he learned all he needed about the Chinese...from those who had been trading with them for a thousand years already: the Byzantines.

an article (citation) for your reference:

http://www.jstor.org/pss/3107293

Sunken civ - if you need the whole article I can get it for you.

[SunkenCiv]

Sure, that would be great, send it, and thank you eleni.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Re your headline: I think you’re confusing Guyak with Barack.

[Talisker]

It was their version of an offer you cannot refuse.

As opposed to their other offers, where they... uh...

[colorado tanker]

Genghis Khan’s grandson demands that the pontiff travel to central Asia in person – with all of his “kings” in tow – to “pay service and homage to us” as an act of “submission”,

Don't tell Zero. He might go looking for a descendant he can bow to.