Comments on: Secret Maps of the Ancient World

By: Erica Elliot

Erica Elliot — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:22:17 +0000

I always think back on the deliberate burning of the Alexandria Library which had ancient secrets for our retrospective. However it is lost and gone forever; I always wonder what our civilized world could have been if this evil act had not been committed.

By: Peter Knopfler

Peter Knopfler — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:34:54 +0000

Why not Edgar Cayce wrote of lost continent of Atlanti and the lost continent inthe Pacific Lemuria, see the Atlantean pillars in Tula Mexico, you will be impressed. Also the connection to Polynesians, who do not look chinese, or aborigines of Australia do not look chinese. Incas, Mayans can look chinese, much is missingt and unknown. China has thousands of Pyramids but not one unearthed.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:48:10 +0000

In the movie “National Treasure: Book of Secrets “, Emily Appleton found some characters in the city of gold, http://i.imagehost.org/0494/2_16.jpg
she says “This is gonna unlock the Olmec language.It’s gonna give us incredible insight into Pre-Columbian history!”
The first three characters are Olmec, but the rest(those in the picture) are Chinese. I think its very improper yet interesting detail.

But i remember seeing the pictures of a bronze sculpture from Shang dynasty of China and a Mayan stone sculpture from browsing some website few years ago, the two are almost identical.
There must be some kind of cultural connection or interaction between the two continents in ancient time.

By: Peter Hirsch

Peter Hirsch — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:42:01 +0000

Jared Diamond in “Guns, Germs & Steel – a short history of the last 13,000 years” on page 412 briefly describes the Chinese treasure ships and the retreat of China into isolationism after 1433 AD, contrasting the Chinese record with the European entrance into the age of discovery.

Diamond, Professor of Physiology at UCLA and author of “The third Chimpanzee”, is very much a main-stream scholar. It would seem that early Chinese voyages is gaining acceptance, indeed respectability.

How early the first voyages were is very much a matter of debate. The earliest I am aware of is the evidence at Monte Verde in Chile that a settlement was established 12,500 years ago. It may be thought likely that the people travelled largely in small boats by sea along the coast, the easiest way to travel in trackless and mountainous terrain – and the voyages they made are unlikely to have been one way.

By: Toby

Toby — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:04:48 +0000

To manipulate history is a crime to humanity. A license Engineer who manipulate data to falsify the result is same of guilty to a crime. True History will come in time, But those who falsify it will be known and will go down in infamy.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:20:43 +0000

Why would America wants to admit that the Chinese discovered America? China is not exactly America’s best friend.