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Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America
An anonymous reader writes in with news about maps attributed to Marco Polo that seem to show the coast of Alaska. "For a guy who claimed to spend 17 years in China as a confidant of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo left a surprisingly skimpy paper trail. No Asian sources mention the footloose Italian. The only record of his 13th-century odyssey through the Far East is the hot air of his own Travels, which was actually an "as told to" penned by a writer of romances. But a set of 14 parchments, now collected and exhaustively studied for the first time, give us a raft of new stories about Polo's journeys and something notably missing from his own account: maps. If genuine, the maps would show that Polo recorded the shape of the Alaskan coast—and the strait separating it from Asia—four centuries before Vitus Bering, the Danish explorer long considered the first European to do so. Perhaps more important, they suggest Polo was aware of the New World two centuries before Columbus."
Actually, the Noresmen is the most logical. Figure the bible for instance, my thoughts are Jesus was the offspring of English royalty. Take a look at the qualities displayed; it was honesty that got him nailed to a cross, resilience that allowed him to survive it, both qualities of an English King of that era and it was the Knights Templar that smuggled Jesus out of Europe to the 'New World', now the US which looks like the King protecting his blood. If that much is true knowing some of the folks from England I know and I am distant relative of Spencer family by way of Germany who did trade with them they were probably lucky if it was just mother Mary that got knocked up. All that out of the Jews not trading with England eh? Since then the Catholic church has been hunting descendants of Jesus here ever since. My question is the origin of the Mayan's and exactly why did the Catholic church destroy all written text of the discovery of that civilization, was it them that wiped them from existence too in their quest for Jesus and his possible descendants? And were the Mayans a civilization derived from outcast Asian and Indian folks? Not much hope in finding truth there on account of some choir boy and kiddie porn trading genecidal book salesmen...