Building on the startling revelations of his bestseller 1421, iconoclastic historian Gavin Menzies calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known "discoveries" of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus. In Who Discovered America? he combines meticulous research and an adventurer's spirit to reveal astounding new evidence of an ancient seagoing tradition that dates as far back as 130,000 years ago. Menzies offers a revolutionary new alternative to the Beringia theory of how humans crossed a land bridge connecting Asia and North America during the last Ice Age, and provides a wealth of staggering claims, including: the ancient South American civilizations of the Olmec and Maya in Central and South America may have had direct origins and influences from Asia; Zheng He's fleets to the Eastern seaboard were pre-dated...
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