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Gavin Menzies would've had a field day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies#1434:_The_Year_a_Magnificent_Chinese_Fleet_Sailed_to_Italy_and_Ignited_the_R

• WorkerBee28474 2y ago
  Except for the dates: > There is no historical record of when or how the lion arrived in Venice, but it was already installed atop the column in St. Mark’s Square by the time Marco Polo returned from China in 1295.
  • Apocryphon 2y ago
    Then he would have an excuse to come up with an even wilder theory of earlier contact