Results of Carbon Dating of Mo Yi Tong Map To Be Revealed

Owner of contoversial map to reveal test results in Beijing Liu Gang, the Chinese attorney who owns the recently publicized Mo Yi Tong map, reputedly drafted in AD 1783 after records said to have been dated AD 1418 which is said to support the Menzies conjecture of Chinese fleets reaching the “New World” 70 years prior to Columbus, is to reveal results of radiocarbon dating on the map itself, as announced by the official 1421:The Year the Chinese Discovered the World site: Liu Gang to reveal AMS dating results of 1418 map, and a refutation to the critics of the map-(www.1421.tv)-Friday, March 17, 2006-On March 22nd 2006 at the Bookworm Club, Beijing, Liu Gang, owner of the 1418 / 1763 map will release the AMS dating results of his map, and issue a point-by-point rebuttal of criticisms of his map. (…)

Owner of contoversial map to reveal test results in Beijing

Liu Gang, the Chinese attorney who owns the recently publicized Mo Yi Tong map, reputedly drafted in AD 1783 after records said to have been dated AD 1418 which is said to support the Menzies conjecture of Chinese fleets reaching the “New World” 70 years prior to Columbus, is to reveal results of radiocarbon dating on the map itself, as announced by the official 1421:The Year the Chinese Discovered the World site:

Liu Gang to reveal AMS dating results of 1418 map, and a refutation to the critics of the map-(www.1421.tv)-Friday, March 17, 2006-On March 22nd 2006 at the Bookworm Club, Beijing, Liu Gang, owner of the 1418 / 1763 map will release the AMS dating results of his map, and issue a point-by-point rebuttal of criticisms of his map. Dr Gunnar Thompson and Gavin Menzies will also issue statements on why they believe the map to be genuine.

The method of radiocarbon dating, AMS or accelerator-based mass-spectrometric, counts C14 (Carbon-14) atoms directly, rather than the number that decay during a specific interval, making for an appropriate method for objects with very small amounts of C14, such as paper.

As reported here, though the object is thought to be at least 100 years old, at least according to the antique experts Liu asserts he has consulted. Should the results support the claim that the map was produced ca. 1763, all this should prove is that the map in question is as old as claimed, and while it supports the Menzies conjecture it does not prove it, in as much as the claimed source is lost or perhaps destroyed.

18 March 2006