The Sahara Desert full of vegetation and rivers Antarctica's dry coastline (now under 5000 ft of ice) The Amazon River accurately mapped long before European discovery Antarctica's topography (not really clearly known until the 20th century)
The article's source theorizes a seafaring people flourishing some tens of thousands of years ago, citing as evidence the forming of ice and shifting of land that could have only been known in this century through geologic study (or by visually witnessing it back "then".)
What do you think? History or bunk?
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Bunk! The Piri Re’is map, for instance was ‘deciphered’ from several originals by an amateur archeologist in 1956. He changed scales, redrew coastlines, and altered the orientation of landmasses on the original maps, to arrive at the miracle map. He also had to scratch out the place names, which matched those in use in the sixteenth century, on the original maps.
This particular website quotes the author you're probably thinking of almost exclusively (and then throws in Einstein in the last few pages), but fails to show sources. There's an implication that there are many such maps, copies of copies of copies of very old copies.
Would be nice to see them, huh?
Posts: 3632 | Location: Washington, US | Registered: 06-03-02
The interesting thing is that humans may well have travelled to very surprising parts of the earth in times earlier than historcal records show. The theory that humans came to North America only after the last ice age (c. 10,000 years ago) was held almost as absolute truth until -- older humans were found in America! They may have, for example, used skin boats and followed marine animals along the coastlines. They need not have crossed by the presumed 'land bridge' between Siberia and Alaska.
But this is speculation. We have to wait for solid evidence. Speculation is fun, but it's not the same as science.
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