Did the Ancient Chinese Make Contact With Native Americans?

By Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times

.Illustrations of a Chinese man and a Native American from the 18th or 19th century, artist unknown. Background: Mention of Fusang ("Fousang des Chinois") on a 1792 French world map, in the area of modern British Columbia. (Wikimedia Commons; edited by Epoch Times)                                       
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It is commonly held that Native Americans are descended from people who traveled across the what is known today as the Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, some 10,000 years ago. At the time, water levels were low and a land bridge emerged, connecting the continents. It is also commonly held that from the time of this crossing until about 1000 A.D. when the Vikings arrived, no expeditions brought explorers or colonists from the Old World to the New.
Yet some say that puzzling artifacts, as well as the results of recent DNA studies performed on Native Americans, may suggest contact between ancient China and North America...Read More.