Abiyoyo Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Didn't know where to put this, but thought it was interesting nonetheless. This is a map drawn in 1513 who commented on the map that he had received the data from source maps dating back 400BC. The article here makes some claims that it was impossible to have been done, in any of those times, to the accuracy the map shows to be. http://www.world-mysteries.com/new_sar_1.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagan Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Didn't know where to put this, but thought it was interesting nonetheless. This is a map drawn in 1513 who commented on the map that he had received the data from source maps dating back 400BC. The article here makes some claims that it was impossible to have been done, in any of those times, to the accuracy the map shows to be. http://www.world-mysteries.com/new_sar_1.shtml It's an interesting map but all the woo-woo attached to it is baloney. This site specifically debunks some of the points in your link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyone Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Didn't know where to put this, but thought it was interesting nonetheless. This is a map drawn in 1513 who commented on the map that he had received the data from source maps dating back 400BC. The article here makes some claims that it was impossible to have been done, in any of those times, to the accuracy the map shows to be. http://www.world-mysteries.com/new_sar_1.shtml Looks like it could be a hoax. It's not that I'm picking on you about ancient documents. I just think that, as Carl Sagan remarked, extraordinary claims should have extraordinary evidence - or at least evidence that is sufficient to satisfy the burden of proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abiyoyo Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 Lets have a links war! These are linbks saying it's not a hoax. http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=240 http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/esoteric/atlantis.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyone Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Lets have a links war! These are linbks saying it's not a hoax. http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=240 http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/esoteric/atlantis.htm Ok, I got a good laugh, and I appreciate that. To tell you the truth, the map on the Muslim site looked like the west coast of Africa and the east coast of South America. That would make sense. I wouldn't even be surprized if someone actually went to Antarctica and drew a map, but to make much an ancient maps related to the unfrozen subglacial coastline is problematic. I collect old maps and globes, and I have an interest in world maps in particular, and I've never been really impressed with the accuracy of maps that did not use any means of recording latitude or longtitude. How do you suppose he missed Cape Horn entirely as well as Patagonia and the Falkland islands, but got the coast of Antarctica so "precisely" (for an ancient map without latitude or longtitude)? Atlantis. Now That's rich. Incidentally if you read Piri Reis' own description of his sources for his world map, there are no sources listed for which there are other indications of exploration of Antarctica. His charts of the Carribean are grossly in error (and so were Columbus' from whom Piri Reis got his map of that area). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RankStranger Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Wikipedia is your friend. This map is only an Unexplainable Mystery if you want it to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueGiant Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Regardless of whether or not there was some great ancient civilization that mapped areas that are only recently possible to map, what I find kind of cool, is that this map is as complete as it is. Especially since this sort of cartography was a state secret at the time. Cool artifact on it's own without the need for any great conspiracies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyone Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Regardless of whether or not there was some great ancient civilization that mapped areas that are only recently possible to map, what I find kind of cool, is that this map is as complete as it is. Especially since this sort of cartography was a state secret at the time. Cool artifact on it's own without the need for any great conspiracies. There was, beginning at about this time and extending into the future, a trend towards compilation maps that culminated in some of the most beautiful works of map making I have seen: The Blaue world maps of the early 1600s. Waldsemueller's World Map of 1507 predates the Piri Reis maps by about 7 years, and it's pretty impressive given that Columbus had identified the New World only 15 years earlier. Note the inclusion of mappings from a variety of sources: http://www.omnimap.com/cgi/graphic.pl?images/interart/100-83p.jpg Piri Reis himself outlined his sources for his maps, because good sources made for good maps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chefranden Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Well there is no mystery here. Obviously we got the maps from the Neanderthals who in turn got 'em from Grandma Lucy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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