The Chinese Romans redux

[D B Campbell]

Marco Polo is significant not because he was the first/only person to make the journey (his father and uncle had done so before him) but because he wrote a book. A relatively detailed, accurate book.

Apparently not so detailed or accurate. I have just heard a British Sinologist on the radio saying that she doesn't believe Marco Polo actually visited China. hock:

What we need are documents or artifacts.

Agreed. That would make things a lot clearer! (Consider how we know that the Romans visited other outlying parts -- e.g. deepest Germany -- and then consider the case for China. Doesn't really stack up, does it?)