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.
The United States of Polo?
United States of Polonia?
Beware the bed of dead.
How about the Vikings?
“How about the Vikings?”
They were much too white to get any credit in this new age of inclusive history. So was Marco Polo, for that matter, but Italian names sound vaguely Hispanic to multi-cultists, so he can have a pass until someone finds an African or an Arab to whom they can credit the discovery.
They are already crediting the Chinese.
Egyptian Reed Boats, Polyenesian rafts, Viking long boats and the Space shuttle Endeavour all highlight mankinds urge to explore!
I visited the museum in Olso where a Viking long boat and Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki reside. Wow!
Lief landed first.
Babelfish?
The fact is fairly well known. There are thousands of children who celebrate the event in swimming pools all across America.
One will solemnly call out “Marco” and the other children will respond “Polo”. Some believe this quasi religous ritual began in California and as it crossed the country took on the aspects of a game.
Native American Indians “discovered” America. Who “discovered” is really irrelevant.
There have been digs on the east coast where artifacts show man traveled here from Europe 20,000 yrs ago. Time has a way of hiding history.
It would not be surprising that a sophisticated ship-building civilization would notice the existence of an island chain and follow it to Alaska. But Alaska having the climate that it does, it’s also not surprising that they had little interest in the real estate
Marco Polo discovered them as well.
“How about the Vikings?
Marco Polo discovered them as well.”
Yeah but Al Gore invented Marco.
Christopher Columbus discovered the Eastern and Western Hemispheres although he didn't realize it at the time.
Ping to the maps.
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