Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Voices of the Past" channel.

  1.  @sclair2854  The absence of Chinese records should be taken with a grain of salt either. People tend to talk of them like they are a complete set of records dating back to millennia BC. In reality they are extremely fragmentary, and that's especially true for the ones of the early Yuan dinasty. IE, the Chinese record that talks of the voyage (and of the entire existence for that matter) of the Princess Kököchin, had been written more than one century after the event, and that's the only Chinese report confirming Polo's account of the fact (that's much closer to the events). Without that single record, historians would have concluded that Polo probably invented the whole story.
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  2.  @sclair2854  Without personal connections to high ranking Mongols, he should hardly have been part of the expedition of Princess Kököchin in Persia (and we know that part of his accounts to be true).
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  3. The Roman expedition to find the sources of the Nile probably described the Murchison falls. We'll have to wait for 1864 to have another European description.
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  4. They traded actively with Jutland peninsula. Actually some of the best preserved roman silverware came form chieftains' burial in actual Denmark.
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  5. That part was confirmed in other accounts, even if the number of the men stranded varies.
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  6.  @AG-ig8uf  Marco Polo's tales had been largely confirmed, and many of them had not been found in any other source, European or Persian.
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