EB in America...

[Starforge]

Well, somewhere in the deep-down hidden sections of my mind there's the faint sound of a ringing bell: IIRC there was this 'Chinese map of America' discovered some time ago which promted the thesis that the Chinese, after the Vikings, were the first to 'discover' the New World?

EDIT: is yer friend: http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgur...%3Dnl%26sa%3DG

A map drawn in 1763 supposedly being copied from an earlier one.....

So - if I compose a tune now and claim I copied it from an original Mozart manuscript which I can't produce you'll just take my word for it?

Somehow methinks you're going to have to come up with a wee bit more proof than that especially when the purchaser of the map got the idea from....you guessed it...Gavin Menzies.

[Tellos Athenaios]

I am completely blank as to whether I should believe the stories. Possible? Certainly, many Chines ships were actually of much better quality than the European ships - after all the Chinese ones needed to be able to function again after waiting out a Typhoon or two. But if it actually happened... The fact that it's a copy doesn't make the story more credible either...