Did China discover AMERICA? Ancient Chinese script carved into rocks may prove Asians lived in New W

Daily Mail ^ | July 9, 2015 | RICHARD GRAY

[slouper]

Yea whatever.

[P.O.E.]

Kon-Tiki

[Vendome]

If they did, it was only Columbus who informed the rest of the world this awesome place exists and it stayed that way...

Luckily, he didn’t plant The Flag of Dixie on this great land or he would be erased from memory, never to be spoke of again and made completely irrelevant

[Swordmaker]

in this day of attempts to give human rights to animals, you guys are all wrong.

America was discovered by a fellow named Harry Mastadon. . . He can't help if that he always gets frozen by stage fright when asked to speak before large groups, so he just didn't announce it. Besides, brushing his tusks takes so long he keeps missing the meeting of the Siberian Chapter of the Paleolithic Geographic Society where he was scheduled to make his announcement of what is on the other side of that land bridge. . .

[Oatka]

“1421”

Thanks, got it on order from my library.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Maybe we should give it back to the Vikings. Let Sharpton make his reparations case to them. :)

[deadrock]

And Asian people were here thousands of years before the Vikes. They crossed the Bering Strait.

That is why an Eskimo in the north looks a lot like a Chilean to the south.

[kvanbrunt2]

well maybe but they certainly didn’t capitalize on the discovery. we did. and they discovered gunpowder but someone else put it in front of a bullet and they discovered pasta but look at what the Italians did with that. when you go ino a chinese restaurant all you see is noodles.

[zek157]

They stayed around long enough to mine 1-2 billion lbs of copper in upper Michigan over a thousand years.

[atc23]

I’ve seen indigenous people in Taiwan that dress in the ancient customs - eerily similar to North American Indians

[zek157]

You would probably like Barry Fell too. Many were here prior to Columbus. The Basques fished the Grand Bankss for centuries prior to chris.

[atc23]

In 1910, researchers found Roman artifacts in Arizona

[righttackle44]

Time for the Redskins to blame the Chinese then instead of European/White Men

I don't think the Chinese perpetrated the Sand Creek Massacre or Custer's attack on Black Kettle's camp on the Washita River. They didn't perpetuate the Wounded Knee Massacre or the Gnadenhutten Massacre, a massacre of 96 Lenape Indians who were killed only because they were Indians. Before the white militiamen killed them, the Christian Lenapes prayed to Jesus.

And the Chinese certainly didn't carry out the Andrew Jackson Death Marches, often called the Trail(s) of Tears. (If there was a Bataan Death March, then there were Andrew Jackson Death Marches, which were hundreds of miles long. By contrast, the Bataan Death March was 65 miles long.)

[Cold Heat]

I think they may have come via the northern access (at the time)through Canada but never came south of Wisconsin.

I also think it’s likely that a ship from India landed near where the original colonists landed and long before they did.

Might explain the unusual Indian tribes the colonists found on the east coast when they landed...but I am certainly no expert on this..just stuff I have read.

[zeugma]

Did the Chinese discover America? Most likely from what I've seen. At least in semi-modern times. I'd have to say the folks who walked across the Bering land bridge discovered it before that though. On the other hand, the Chinese didn't seem to do anything with it did they?

[NutCrackerBoy]

In 1910, researchers found Roman artifacts in Arizona

It was a hoax.

[Redcitizen]

Look. This is how it happened. A few thousand years ago, Some native American kids were bored one day. While painting pictures of aliens and ufos, they made some chicken scratch doodles on the rock. Years passed and the degradation of the chicken scratches got weathered into a mess of lines that resemble chinese words. Remember this guy is an “ amateur”so he reads the pictographs much like a Rorschach ink blot. He doesnt get a professional chinese linguist to come read it and render an expert opinion.

[Oatka]

You didn’t really DISCOVER something if you forget that you discovered it.

I read of a Chinese explorer ca 2200 BC claim that after a long voyage he came to a land (Fusang) that had a spectacular mountain and was covered with forests. A couple of centuries later, an emperor read his report, declared it a fantasy and ordered it destroyed, but a few copies were saved.

Some years ago researchers used his narrative and said his "spectacular mountain" was Mount Hood and his trip could be traced down to California using his landmarks and rate of travel between them. They were intrigued by his description of coming to a "great chasm" in the land when they went inland and speculated that he might have seen the Grand Canyon. A Helluva long haul, but you never know.

If all of this is true, his discovery was not forgotten, just ridiculed, which is even worse than being forgotten. Lots of books on this interesting theory.

Personally, I think others were here from East and West but were either killed off, absorbed by the locals, or as in the Fusang case, not believed and discarded. I would think mitochondrial DNA among the Indians here might prove it conclusively one way or the other.

[A_Former_Democrat]

You’re kidding, right?

Tell us, please . . if the white man had not “discovered America” and instead, eventually the Chinese or Japanese did . .

How many American Indians do you think would be alive today?

I’ll await your answer . .

[SpaceBar]

I read Menzez’ ‘1421’ shortly after it came out. Quite good.