It is known that the innermost secrets of Babylon, dating back to the ancient Northern civilization, as well as the sacred knowledge obtained in the northern campaign, were kept by Alexander the Great in a special cypress chest, always locked. After the sudden death of the ruler of the world, the chest went to one of his successors, the commander Seleucus Nicator, who became the ruler of the Babylonian satrapy, and then the king of the vast surrounding lands. He had to open the cypress chest with an ax. The documents stored in it turned out to be so invaluable that the new owner ordered them to be hidden as far as possible. And not in vain.
Alexander's successors, having divided among themselves the enormous empire so unexpectedly inherited by them, immediately entered a bloody war among themselves. Seleucus was treacherously stabbed to death with a dagger by the son of the commander Ptolemy - his former associate and comrade-in-arms, who, like him, became a king. For a long time, their heirs, who were constantly sharing power and expanding the boundaries of the new kingdom, were simply not up to the contents of the cypress chest. And when they remembered about Alexander's papers, the reaction of their new owners was the same as that of all their predecessors: to hide everything as far as possible from prying eyes, which was strictly followed …
Valery Nikitich Demin tried to trace the further fate of the cypress treasury. Byzantium became the heir to the Seleucid kingdom, which then surrendered its Middle Eastern territories to the Baghdad Caliphate. And the priceless gifts stored in the cypress chest of Alexander the Great seemed to have been forgotten forever. Meanwhile, according to some reports, along with other relics and valuables, they were quietly kept in the underground structures of the Jerusalem temple.
After the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, the Temple Mount was leased by the founders of the Knights Templar. For several years, secret excavations have been carried out here. Their result was a fabulous enrichment of the order, which grew (after the death of the Kingdom of Jerusalem under the onslaught of Muslims) into one of the most influential forces in medieval Europe.
The defeat of the Knights Templar by the French king Philip the Fair, the burning of the master and the total destruction of ordinary knights became the food of numerous historical novels and serious scientific research. However, they could not give an answer to the question of where the fabulous treasures of the Templars disappeared. As well as what happened to the handwritten archive of the order, which included the papers and maps of Alexander the Great.
They "surfaced" only after several centuries. In the 15th - 17th centuries, in different places and at different times, maps and diagrams appeared, which depicted either territories hitherto unknown to Europeans, or mysterious lands and states that existed in ancient times.
The most famous maps that surfaced in the era of the great geographical discoveries include the image of the disappeared arctic continent of Hyperborea, made by the most famous cartographer of that time - the Flemish Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594). Hyperborea is mapped as a huge continent surrounding the North Pole and with a high mountain in the middle. It is clear that in the hands of Mercator there was some kind of ancient map (dating back precisely to the era of Alexander the Great), …
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On this map that has not survived to this day, the Arctic Ocean was listed as navigable, which played a tragic role in the search for sea routes around the northern coast of Eurasia. Captains and navigators, relying on the authoritative opinion of Mercator, stubbornly stormed the polar ice, where many of them, for example, Willem Barents (1550 - 1597), found their death. The existence of such a map allows us to understand why in the 16th century at the mouth of the Ob, called the Ob Sea, there were often significantly more English ships than Russians. The British owned a map showing the way to China through the Irtysh. By the way, theoretically, it is so, since the Black Irtysh originates in China.
The above facts testify: in the hands of Mercator there was a map that reproduced such ancient polar realities, when the Arctic Ocean was indeed navigable. Apparently, from the same distant era (namely, from the manuscripts captured by Alexander the Great in the book depositories of Babylon), Mercator's information about Hyperborea itself was gleaned.
Another map that uses the legacy of Alexander the Great is the map of the Turkish admiral Piri Reis. Like the Mercator map, it was copied from an ancient source dating back to the Hellenistic era. The Turks apparently found this map in the imperial book depository after the capture and sack of Constantinople. Piri Reis himself talked about twenty schemes of Alexander the Great, which he saw with his own eyes and used for his own purposes. One of them depicted not only the coast of Brazil, which was not yet known in Europe, redrawn by the Turkish admiral in 1513, but also Antarctica in all its details. In his own handwritten postscript in the margins, Piri Reis reports that Christopher Columbus used a similar cartographic source at one time and, therefore, the famous navigator did not discover any America,but only followed the route known long before him: “An infidel named Colombo, a Genoese, discovered these lands. In the hands of the named Colombo came one book in which he read that on the edge of the Western Sea, far in the West, there are shores and islands. All kinds of metals and precious stones were found there. The aforementioned Colombo studied this book for a long time."
Historians have found out how the "book" not named by Piri Reis got into the hands of Columbus. It turns out that the wife of a successful Genoese was the daughter of the Grand Master, who by that time had changed the name of the Order of the Knights Templar, which was not touched by cruel repressions in Spain and Portugal. Therefore, it can be assumed that the "discoverer of America" had access to the maps from the cypress chest of Alexander the Great, which passed to the knights-templars from the Jerusalem temple.
There is even a hypothesis that the Templars, who had one of the most powerful fleets in medieval Europe, sailed to North America in the XIII-XIV centuries, and shortly before the defeat of the order, about which they had been warned in advance, they managed to secretly take their fabulous treasures there. and at the same time relocate your entire fleet.
That is why the Piri Reis map was not the only one where the southern continent, not yet discovered by Europeans, is depicted in detail. Known, for example, the map of the French mathematician Orontius Phineus in 1531. Finally, in 1507, the famous map of the Lorraine cartographer Martin Waldseemüller was published, on which the name America first appeared - after the name of Amerigo Vespucci, who allegedly discovered the New World. There is no Antarctica on it, but the Far North of the Eurasian continent is depicted in sufficient detail with contours, for the most part corresponding to modern data, and the Arctic Ocean, free of ice for navigation. All this proves once again: the earliest cartographic primary sources existed and were available to a sufficient number of the chosen and dedicated. Most likely, the maps of Alexander the Great exist to this day,deeply hidden in secret archives, which are not declassified only because other information may become known, the disclosure of which is still considered undesirable.
Information from other documents belonging to Alexander the Great spread through Masonic channels and began to appear in doses in the second half of the 18th - early 19th centuries. This meant that the Templar archives did not perish and, apparently, passed "by inheritance" to the French masons. Through their foreign "brothers" information about the arctic ancestral home - Hyperborea leaked to Russia and became known to Catherine the Great, who, with the help of Lomonosov, organized two secret expeditions to the North Pole. The peak of the dissemination of information about the secret knowledge of mankind fell on the Napoleonic era, when it became known about the incredibly high technical development of the ancient (Hyperborean) civilization, which owned, in particular, aircraft and rocket vehicles. In the 70s of the XIX century, a very popular writer Vasily Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845 - 1936) appeared on the Kola Peninsula in the future - the brother of the great theater director (Stanislavsky's associate). Vasily Ivanovich was not only a famous writer, but also a well-known freemason, who linked his fate with the Moscow representatives of the order, while still studying at the Alexander Cadet Corps. Did he see the originals of ancient documents? One way or another, he knew much more about the Russian North than mere mortals. That is why he strove so stubbornly to the most remote and practically inaccessible corners of the Kola Arctic, where no man's foot had set foot for a long time. One of the first, for example, he penetrated - alone and practically without supplies - into the then completely uninhabited Khibiny.) - the brother of the great theater director (associate of Stanislavsky). Vasily Ivanovich was not only a famous writer, but also a well-known freemason, who linked his fate with the Moscow representatives of the order, while still studying at the Alexander Cadet Corps. Did he see the originals of ancient documents? One way or another, he knew much more about the Russian North than mere mortals. That is why he strove so stubbornly to the most remote and practically inaccessible corners of the Kola Arctic, where no man's foot had set foot for a long time. One of the first, for example, he penetrated - alone and practically without supplies - into the then completely uninhabited Khibiny.) - the brother of the great theater director (associate of Stanislavsky). Vasily Ivanovich was not only a famous writer, but also a well-known freemason, who linked his fate with the Moscow representatives of the order, while still studying at the Alexander Cadet Corps. Did he see the originals of ancient documents? One way or another, he knew much more about the Russian North than mere mortals. That is why he strove so stubbornly to the most remote and practically inaccessible corners of the Kola Arctic, where no man's foot had set foot for a long time. One of the first, for example, he penetrated - alone and practically without supplies - into the then completely uninhabited Khibiny.who linked their fate with the Moscow representatives of the order, while still studying at the Alexander Cadet Corps. Did he see the originals of ancient documents? One way or another, he knew much more about the Russian North than mere mortals. That is why he strove so stubbornly to the most remote and practically inaccessible corners of the Kola Arctic, where no man's foot had gone for a long time. One of the first, for example, he penetrated - alone and practically without supplies - into the then completely uninhabited Khibiny.who linked their fate with the Moscow representatives of the order, while still studying at the Alexander Cadet Corps. Did he see the originals of ancient documents? One way or another, he knew much more about the Russian North than mere mortals. That is why he strove so stubbornly to the most remote and practically inaccessible corners of the Kola Arctic, where no man's foot had set foot for a long time. One of the first, for example, he penetrated - alone and practically without supplies - into the then completely uninhabited Khibiny. For example, he entered - alone and practically without supplies - into the then completely uninhabited Khibiny. For example, he entered - alone and practically without supplies - into the then completely uninhabited Khibiny.