The Piri Reis Map
Among unexplained things, the Piri Reis map facinates me since many years. It's accuracy, and its representation of Antartica without ice caps is amazing. The man who made it claims to used more ancient maps. These ancient maps were made from other even more ancient maps, perhaps from lost places of great knowledge, like the library of Alexandria.
Link about the maps, theories, quick details about other maps. Interesting readings.
World Mysteries
So, why is this old map so accurate ?
High definition of the Piri Reis map: 2000x2753
Link to ParanormalisWiki
Feel free to post what you know or think about this amazing map
Num7
Among unexplained things, the Piri Reis map facinates me since many years. It's accuracy, and its representation of Antartica without ice caps is amazing. The man who made it claims to used more ancient maps. These ancient maps were made from other even more ancient maps, perhaps from lost places of great knowledge, like the library of Alexandria.
Link about the maps, theories, quick details about other maps. Interesting readings.
World Mysteries
As the link suggests, the Piri Reis map is so accurate that it almost needed to be drew from the air. The technique used, the spheroid trigonometry was supposed to be unknown before the 18th century.Hapgood has proved that the Piri Re'is map is plotted out in plane geometry, containing latitudes and longitudes at right angles in a traditional "grid"; yet it is obviously copied from an earlier map that was projected using spherical trigonometry! Not only did the early map makers know that the Earth was round, but they had knowledge of its true circumference to within 50 miles!
So, why is this old map so accurate ?
High definition of the Piri Reis map: 2000x2753
Link to ParanormalisWiki
Feel free to post what you know or think about this amazing map

Num7