Historians discovered this amazing find back in 1929. This artifact was inscribed by the legendary admiral of the Turkish fleet of the 16th century on a tanned gazelle skin and dates back to 1513. And this map shows the northern tip of Antarctica, which is completely free from the many kilometers of ice that now hold it down.
During his lifetime, Piri Reis had a special passion for cartography, and his rather significant rank in the naval hierarchy gave him practically unlimited access to the Royal Library in Great Constantinople.
In an explanatory note to the drawn map, Reis himself indicated that the original sources were more ancient maps that dated back to the 5th century BC and even much older.
In addition to the incredibly detailed Arctic coastline, the map captures the African coast and eastern South America. Not only is Antarctica mapped 300 years before its official discovery, but the map shows the areas that are now sheltered under a thick ice shell.
In addition, the scientist Arlington Mullery, to check the accuracy of the map, combined the ancient map with the modern coordinate system. The result was simply stunning - the map is absolutely accurate.
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According to the latest geological data, Queen Maud's land has been free of ice for over 6,000 years. And according to the official scientific community, the continent has been covered with ice for over a million years.
And the Piri Reis map shows these lands free. This indicates the fact that when the original source was drawn, there was not even a trace of ice.
Recent studies of Antarctica have shown that the period when the continent was free of ice just ended about 6,000 years ago. Although some scientists are inclined to shift this interval by several thousand years into the past in the interval of 12-9 thousand years.
From all this follows the most important question, who created a detailed map of the land of Queen Maud in Antarctica 6,000 years ago?
After all, modern archeology claims that the earliest civilization arose in the Middle East 5,000 years ago and they could not see Antarctica without ice in any way, because it had been covered with a thick ice shell for at least 1,000 years.
It seems that in ancient times there was a highly developed civilization that captured the continent when rivers flowed there and meadows bloomed. And it may have left much more traces of its existence, such as the recently discovered giant structure.