? I don't know why americanhistoryforums gets so many members when there's so much spam there.

I havent been back there in a while, are a lot of people joining still (I mean real people?)

There's two sets of odds that make this discovery really way out. First of all, it's unlikely that something this fragile could survive buried in a bog at all, and then for it to be unearthed and spotted before it was destroyed is incalculably more amazing.”Thats a quote above from the article. How do you suppose the book  survived that long in a bog? it's a thousand plus years old! No telling how long it was in the bog.

I've always found her life and legend interesting. Who do you think wrote the definitive work on her life?

I highly recommend a fictional novel by Orson Scott Card.? (I know, I know, its fiction, but its still really excellent.)The novel is called, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus.? it's a sci-fi novel, but if you can get past that, the author presents his ideas about how the american civilizations could have been protected from European invasions, and what would have happened if they hadn't been so completely wiped out by the Conquistadores.? He vaccinates the natives, to counter the diseases; introduces a variant form of christianity, both to ease the fear of the God-like europeans and to aid in diplomatic relations later; and stalls the advance of the Europeans to the New World by about forty years.? He postulates that in that forty year time span, the Aztec empire, on its last legs, would have toppled, but been replaced by an empire of Tlaxcalans, who would utilize the leftover Aztec infrastructure to unify most of the tribes who had fallen under Aztec domination.? also some interesting things in there about naval tech, and its state in the Americas at the time of the conquest.speculative, i'll grant you, but really cool.?

I've read it, it is very well researched.