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THE PIRI REIS MAP
| The Piri Reis map is a document created in Constantinopolis in year 1513 A.D. by the homonymous admiral of the Ottoman Imperial
fleet, and discovered only in 1929 in the ancient Imperial Palace in
Constantinopolis. In this map it is represented the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of the Antartic
continent. This fact is astonishing, as the Antartic continent has been discovered only in 1818.
Moreover, in the map, the Land of Queen Maud is represented without ice. This
condition, according to the scientists, would have been possible only thousands of years ago. The real enigma representend by this map though, is not contained within the drawings of a continent which was to be found out three centuries later, but having it represented without the coat of ice that covers it since at least 8000 years. Piri Reis used to draw this map, also other maps, which were originally stored in the Constantinopolis Imperial Library, but which was lost. A very similar case is also represented by another geographic map, the Buache map, which dates from 1737 and which has allegedly been copied over by some ancient Greek maps. This map also shows Antartica without any trace of ice, so as it was in the Paleolithic age. |
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How could the ancients know the coast line of the Antartic continent? Where did the map drawn by these ancient men end up? And especially who were these ancient people who thousands of years ago knew topography? Could they have been men of the future who came to our world from another universe?
Translated by Alice "Sionnach"
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