| After I wrote the earlier commentary and went | | | | So, when were the original maps drawn that |
| back and read it several "other thoughts" | | | | Reis copied? |
| came to mind regarding the Piri Ries map that | | | | |
| I spoke of in the Ancient Consciousness | | | | Charles Hutchins Hapgood (1904-1982) was an |
| commentary. And while this young | | | | American academician who developed the theory |
| twenty-something Admiral copied his map from | | | | that there was an advanced civilization, long |
| a source we're not familiar with, other maps | | | | before 4,000BCE, believes that the Venetians |
| affirm that there's been knowledge and travel | | | | found one of the maps when Constantiople was |
| in our world that goes beyond myth!  | | | | sacked during the Crusade of 1204. His futher |
| | | | theorizes that an advanced civilization, |
| The Piri Reis map was discovered on my | | | | "explored Antartica when its coasts were free |
| birthday in 1929 by Malil Edhim, director of | | | | of ice and that they travelled from pole to |
| the Turkish National Museum in the old | | | | pole with ease and sophistication." |
| Imperial Palace at Constantinople. To add | | | | |
| further intrigue and romance to the find, the | | | | The last ice age ended about 13,000 years |
| map was painted on a gazelle skin and rolled | | | | ago, give or take a century or two. Isn't |
| up on a dusty shelf. | | | | that half of 26,000? |
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| What we now know is the such precise | | | | The Piri Reis map doesn't stand alone though. |
| information, coming out of the 1500's (when | | | | The Orontius Fineus map discovered in 1531 |
| he copied it), had to use spherical | | | | showed Antartica with flowing rivers where |
| trigonometry in their mathematical | | | | now mile thick glaciers flow. The Hadji |
| measurements as well as use ultra modern | | | | Ahmed map of 1559 showed the ice age land |
| cartographical projections.But how? How did | | | | bridge between Siberia and Alaska. The Andrea |
| they (whomever they were-are) know the | | | | Beinicasa map of 1508 showed most of Northern |
| correct size of the earth. | | | | Europe in the grasp of ice. And so on. Our |
| | | | history isn't what we're being taught! |
| And if this information was available | | | | |
| pre-1500's when Reis copied it, how brave was | | | | And can you believe there are Christians who |
| Christopher Columbus anyway in 1492 when he | | | | believe (as James Ussher proclaimed) the |
| sailed the oceans blue. Was he really afraid | | | | earth was created in seven days on October |
| of falling off the end of the earth as he set | | | | 23, 4004 BCE? |
| sail for lands unknown? Talk about myths! | | | | |
| | | | I can't! |