Some of the ancient maps show the Sixth Continent partially free of ice, while others show it completely free. At the same time, the creators of the maps claim that they were guided by even more ancient samples in their compilation.
It was possible to determine the contours of the coastline and surface of Antarctica hidden under the ice layer only in the middle of the 20th century with the help of special equipment. And what? Medieval cartographers depicted the outlines of the continent and its relief in exactly the same way! According to scientists, Antarctica was partially free of ice about 6,000 years ago, and completely free - almost 15,000 years ago.
Who was engaged in geodesy and cartography in those days when, according to modern views, there was no civilized society on Earth?
Italian admiral hypothesis
In 1974, the book "Civilization under the Ice" by retired Admiral Flavio Barbieri was published in Italy. Based on the analysis of archaeological finds, ancient documents, legends, myths, traditions of ancient peoples, as well as their scientific and technical knowledge, the author came to paradoxical conclusions.
He believes that all agricultural civilizations arose almost simultaneously in different parts of the world: in Central and South America, Mesopotamia, Central Africa, East China, Southeast Asia. And this despite the fact that there were no contacts between these regions at that time. The conclusion suggests itself that in the distant past there was a kind of supercivilization, which became the source of the emergence of all subsequent civilizations on Earth.
Where and when could such a supercivilization arise?
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Piri Reis map. Contours of Antarctica on the right without ice
It is known that from 50 to 12 thousand years ago ice up to three kilometers thick covered northeastern North America to the middle of the Great Plains in the west and to the latitude of New York in the south. And in Northern Europe, continuous ice cover reached the latitude of London and Berlin. At the same time, the sea level was more than 100 meters lower than the modern one.
It is believed that such a spread of ice masses was the result of a general cooling on Earth. In geology, this period is called the Pleistocene. Then the entire territory of Siberia, up to the coast of the Arctic Ocean and Alaska, was free of ice, and a variety of animals lived on it - mammoths, reindeer, woolly rhinos, cave bears and many others. This means that the climate of Siberia was then quite mild.
During the same period, glaciers piled up in the Southern Hemisphere in Australia and New Zealand, but there was no ice on a significant part of Antarctica adjacent to the Atlantic coast, and the climate in this part of the continent was moderate. This can be explained only by the fact that then the axis of the Earth was tilted less than now, and the geographic poles occupied a different position.
The first inhabitants of South America
With such a "dislocation" stable air currents - trade winds - blew in the Southern Hemisphere towards South America. At the same time, an oceanic current should have arisen, which from the southeastern coast of Asia went through the Indian Ocean, washed South Africa, reached South America, penetrated the Drake Passage between Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica and went further along its western coast, being lost in the Pacific Ocean. The current rushed towards Antarctica. It was a sin not to use it. The peoples of the Paleolithic era who inhabited the Indonesian region already 50 thousand years ago could have made at least primitive watercraft. In the same era, the settlement of nearby Australia took place. Studies of ancient human skulls at least 12 thousand years old, found in South America, have shownthat the first inhabitants of this region belonged to the same ethnic group as the Australian aborigines.
Such finds refute the classical concept of settling the American continent through Beringia - a land area that periodically emerged in ancient times on the site of the Bering Strait between Chukotka and Alaska.
During those 40 thousand years that passed from the time of the construction of the first Paleolithic means of navigation to the end of the Pleistocene, groups of people from the Asian and South American coasts, as well as from South India and South Africa, could have appeared off the coast of Antarctica. This happened if they fell into the already mentioned equatorial current.
Finding themselves in a rather favorable climate, they started growing crops, the seeds of which they brought with them. Following this, new tools of labor and new types of dwellings began to be created, the first steps were taken along the path of technical civilization. And when the inhabitants of Antarctica learned to build large seagoing ships capable of withstanding the oceanic elements, they began to sail to the shores of other lands. It is very likely that such voyages resulted in the creation of coastal colonies, at least in South America. Some traces of these settlements could have survived, but the fact is that the sea level was then lower than the current one by about 130 meters, so you need to look for these traces at great depths. As for the settlements and cities that existed on the Antarctic continent, they are all buried under the ice cover and carried out to sea,after all, starting from the end of the Pleistocene, glaciation gradually covered the whole of Antarctica. The cause was a global catastrophe.
The asteroid unfolded the Earth
About 12,500 years ago, a large asteroid (or comet) fell on Earth, as a result of which the position of the planet's geographic poles changed. This is confirmed, in particular, by the finds in the north of Siberia of the corpses of frozen mammoths, in whose stomachs undigested food was preserved. This means that they died almost instantly due to a sudden and sharp cold snap. Well, permafrost was advancing on those lands gradually, over thousands of years.
According to Alexander Tolman of the University of Vienna and Victor Klabe of the University of Oxford, the cataclysm occurred between 10,000 and 9600 BC, when fragments of a huge comet hit the Earth.
In Antarctica, which is central to the earth's oceanic mass, sea levels would rise so much that all cities were submerged. If any of the residents survived, he died during the snowfall, which lasted for several months in a row.
Is this Atlantis?
Only those who were at that time at sea were saved. Some of the sailors reached the coasts of South America, Africa and Asia. Here they mixed with the local residents who survived the disaster, laying the foundation for the formation of various nations, nationalities and tribes. They taught the locals the agriculture they cultivated in their dead homeland.
Thus, the global catastrophe and the "worldwide flood" caused by it contributed to the spread of the civilization that originally developed on the Sixth Continent. At the same time, the foundations were laid for the further progress of mankind in different parts of the world.
Pundits still cannot clearly explain why the step pyramid of the Egyptian pharaoh Djoser, who ruled in the XXVIII century BC, is so similar to the step pyramids (ziggurats) built by the Sumerians in about the same years in Ancient Mesopotamia. And why are the pyramids of the Aztecs and Incas - the creators of the first civilizations in the history of the American continent - like stylized copies of the structures mentioned above?
Apparently, this historical fact, along with the mysterious maps of ancient Antarctica, myths and legends about the Flood, about the gods-mentors of mankind, can serve as a weighty argument in favor of Flavio Barbieri's hypothesis. Its validity is also confirmed by the fact that almost 20 years after Barbieri, in 1995, very similar ideas were expressed by the American researcher Graham Hancock in the book "Traces of the Gods" and by a couple of Canadian scientists - Rand and Rose Flem-Ath - in the book "The End of Atlantis ".
Vadim Ilyin