Many people think Christopher Columbus was the first European to explore the New World but another explorer got here first Who was that explorer?

Answer 1

Leif Ericson was not the first explorer. I have been told that Marco Polo was before him.

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.