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Abstract In 1997, recherchers conducted by archeologist games R.moriarty of university of san diego, california unearthed thgirty manganeseencrusted stone anchors (each weighing from 500 to700 pounds )near palos discoverd to contain man-made holes , to be inscribed with indentifiable chinese charachters , and to dato back to 2’000 to 3’000 years . the discovery gave rise to acontroversy that america was first discoverd by chinese buddhist missionaries in the fifth century; long before the attempts of Christover Columbus and norsemen. this idea wasinhanced by a passage inthe history of the liang dynasty that records how huishen aqleader of the buddhist |