Epigraph researcher John Ruskamp claims these symbols shown in the enhanced image above, found etched into rock at the Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are evidence that ancient Chinese explorers discovered America long before Christopher Columbus stumbled on the continent in 1492
One of Mr Ruskamp's staunchest supporters has been Dr David Keightley, an expert on Neolithic Chinese civilization at the University of California, Berkley.
He has been helping to decipher the scripts found carved into the rocks.
Dr Michael Medrano, chief of the Division of Resource Management for Petroglyph National Monument, has also studied the petroglyphs found by Mr Ruskamp.
He said: 'These images do not readily appear to be associated with local tribal entities.
'Based on repatination, they appear to have antiquity to them.'
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Check out 1472: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies. Great read. Pretty much rejected by mainstream academia, but still an interesting theory.
America was “discovered” multiple times.
Columbus was incredibly late to the party. There’s evidence that Vikings, Chinese and even Egyptians had discovered the Americas well before Columbus was even sperm in his daddy’s sack.
Anyone still believing that Columbus discovered the Americas has their head in the sand.
Well duh where did Native Americans come from. Definitely asia
Reading a book about hidden cities in the Americas. There used to be land that connected Asia to America (Alaska) that people traveled across.
Oh course Asians were here. Native Americans are Asians if you go back far enough
They faked this.
Humans be humans walking all around this planet
He discovered America is what he did. He was a brave Italian explorer. And in this house, Christopher Columbus is a hero. End of story.
Well there are Chinese ship anchors that predate the English empire scattered on Australian coasts. (the Dutch were here beforehand too).
the indigenous discovered america
Those barely look like the actual letters and translated it’s gibberish
These are pictographs and similar are carved in rocks in Europe and Asia, the languages just evolved differently. In the case of the written languages of the indigenous peoples of the Americas Mayans for instance they didn’t get much past pictographs but since the peoples of the Americas originated from Asia, it makes sense that their linguistic development was somewhat parallel.
This is so common sense, how could this research be serious and not just Chinese propaganda?
Populations of people were crossing the Bering Strait Land Bridge anywhere from 15-50,000 years ago. I assume the bridge didn’t work in only one direction.
I’m actually struck by the similarity to Linear A, which also shares some similarities with ancient Chinese oracle bone script.
Linear A is dated slightly older than the oracle bone script but there’s some overlap in the proposed dates of origin.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A)
The perfect Reddit post 😅
“Ancient Chinese secret?”
There were already people living here.. *they* discovered America😂
No, these are the constellations.
Just as possible you got it backwards. Native Americans populated China.
the who found america story has always been a distraction. there was life before us and there will be life after us
The top left is a plot map of Cape Coral, FL. Easy
Since humans first came from Asia in the first place …..
It’s not like North American humans popped out of the ground, crawled out of caves, or evolved from New World Monkeys separately of the rest of humankind, after all …
Alaskan natives
Where the hell do you think Native Americans came from?
They don’t look very similar.
It all depends on what we consider “America”.
Such a wide expanse from the Aleutian Islands all the coast lines to Key West. Hell Columbus landed in the Bahamas and is that really truly considered America?