How to solve the mystery of the ten thousand year old map?

Ancient maps bring new mysteries to people.

In the Serai Library in Istanbul, Turkey, a navigational map drawn on parchment was found. The map is signed by Turkish Admiral Piri Reis and is dated 1513 AD.

Lesburn was a Greek who was killed in Cairo in 1554. He is the nephew of the famous pirate Mal Reis and has spent his life fighting fiercely on the sea. It was not uncommon for a person like him to own a navigation map. However, this map of Reis is a rare ancient map. It was not drawn by Reis himself or his contemporaries. This map is a copy of an original drawn in extremely remote antiquity. The outlines of the continents on both sides of the Atlantic are accurately marked on this map, and the geographical locations of North and South America are also accurate. In particular, the Amazon River Basin, the Gulf of Venezuela, and Cape Horn in South America are all marked very accurately. What’s even more amazing is that the entire Antarctica is clearly marked on this map. As we all know, it is generally believed that the Antarctic continent was only discovered in 1818. However, the Antarctic continent on Reis's map not only matches modern maps, but also depicts the coastlines on both sides of the Antarctic continent that are now covered by ice, especially the Quimorande region. In the description of the map, he said that he used 20 nautical charts to draw these maps, 8 of which were from BC.

In addition, people also saw the signature of Piri Reis in two ancient atlases showing the Mediterranean and other regions discovered in the Berlin National Library.

In 1956, Reis's ancient map of Antarctica was sent to the American cartography expert Alanton Mullery for appraisal. Molery was surprised to find that the topographic features of Antarctica on these maps drawn more than 400 years ago were exactly the same as the topographic outline of Antarctica measured in 1949. Not only that, Reiss should also be regarded as the first person in the world to draw a map of Antarctica. Because in the European Renaissance era where Reis lived, scholars were still limited to speculation and debate about the undiscovered continent of Antarctica. Until 1820, no one had ever been able to mark the location of the Antarctic continent on a map. But Piri Reis drew the Antarctic map 300 years in advance, which was only drawn in the 20th century.

Later, these ancient maps of Antarctica drawn by Reis were further influenced by the director of the Weston Observatory in the United States, Professor Charles Hapgood of New Bush College, and mathematicians. Meticulous research and thorough identification by Chad Strochin and others.

Scholars believe that these ancient maps are incredibly accurate. The actual coast of Antarctica without glacier coverage and the internal topography without glacier coverage shown in the picture are completely consistent with the data currently detected by people using echo waves. The mountains and peaks marked in the picture are also clear. Even places that are still difficult to explore on ancient maps are very delicately drawn. For example, the Antarctic mountain range marked on the picture was not discovered until after the 1950s.

Some researchers have expressed doubts about the rivers marked on the ancient Antarctic map: How can rivers exist in the extremely cold area known as the "Ice and Snow Continent"? After reviewing the 1949 marine geologists A survey report on the Ross Sea on the edge of Antarctica revealed that the rock formations stagnant on the seabed were consolidated by alluvial deposits brought by Antarctic rivers. These alluvial deposits are more than 10,000 years old, and the latest is 6,000 years old. Research by geological historians has shown that Antarctica at that time was still in the temperate period before the Ice Age, with hundreds of rivers flowing, lush vegetation, and full of life.

This means that as early as the ancient times before Antarctica was covered by glaciers, someone had already drawn the original topographic map of the Antarctic continent. Could this be the work of the original inhabitants at that time? It is really unimaginable.

With further research, scientists discovered that Piri Reis's ancient map was very similar to the photos of the earth taken by satellites. Because after coordinate projection, the ancient map of Antarctica is almost identical to the map centered on Cairo made by the US Air Force using equidistant photography. For this reason, Professor Charles Yupgood and others pointed out that Reiss's ancient map of Antarctica must be a copy of a photo taken from high altitude. It is precisely because of the "high-altitude photography effect" that South America on ancient maps is strangely elongated. This coincides with the characteristics of the Earth photos taken by the US lunar probe.

In addition to studying the ancient maps drawn by Reis, scientists also collected ancient maps left by Boku and others, and obtained new discoveries and revelations from them. The Boku map was drawn in 1733. According to the map, the Lacey Sea and the Weddell Sea are connected to each other. The Antarctic continent is not a whole, but two large islands surrounded by oceans. The authenticity of the map has always been doubted. It was not until the 1968 Geophysical Year that scientists finally confirmed after hard work that the Bocu world map accurately reflected the true situation of Antarctica before it was covered by ice. Both it and Lacey's map record the overview of Antarctica's land and sea at different geological stages before the Ice Age.

In 1966, Professor Charles Hapgood published a monograph "The Map of Ancient Neptune", in which he published the results of many years of research. The professor pointed out that the identification of a batch of ancient maps showed that in prehistoric times, someone may have drawn maps depicting the topography of the Antarctic continent during the oasis era.

Hapgood also described his investigation into the ins and outs of the ancient maps drawn by Piri Reis and others. He pointed out that the original information based on which the ancient map of Antarctica was drawn may come from BC.

Because this area of ??Antarctica has been covered by ice for 15,000 years, this means that Antarctica on the Lacey map was drawn based on the geographical conditions 15,000 years ago.

In fact, the Reis map is not the only rare ancient map. In 1339, Dulset had a nautical chart that accurately marked the location of the Mediterranean and the entire Europe. Judging from many facts, this map is also a copy, that is, the original version was drawn much earlier than this. Judging from the map itself, the mapper's knowledge of geography and other aspects was much more comprehensive than that of people in the 14th, 15th or even 16th centuries.

On some maps of Greece from the time of Ptolymaes, people can see that some areas today are still covered by glaciers, while other areas are not completely covered by glaciers. All this shows that these maps were drawn very far back in antiquity, because Sweden was covered by glaciers very far back in time, and by the time of the Ptolymais dynasty, these glaciers had long since disappeared.

In 1531, Olonchius Vernaius had a map on which the size of Antarctica was almost exactly the same as the maps drawn by modern people. The difference is that this map only shows that the western part of Antarctica is covered by ice, and the ice has not yet covered the entire Antarctic continent. According to the research results of geophysical science, about 6,000 years ago, the climate in some areas of the Antarctic continent was relatively mild, especially the Leys Sea area. This fact shows that the above map was drawn based on the topography of Antarctica 6,000 years ago.

In 1559, another Turkish map also accurately marked the Antarctic continent and the Pacific coastline of North America. What's even more surprising is that this map also depicts a narrow strip of land that connects Siberia and Alaska like a bridge. But the area connecting Siberia and Alaska has been missing for at least 30,000 years. The mapper knew this so well that he even drew it on his map.

On King Chami's sea map drawn in 1502, the Sahara Desert, the world's largest barren land, was marked with lakes, rivers, and cities, indicating that it was a vast oasis with fertile land. Is this map wrong? However, research by scientists has proven that around 4009 BC, the Sahara region was indeed a humid climate zone, with dense rivers and lakes, lush forests, numerous residents, and a prosperous economy. Due to climate change and people's destruction of the ecological environment, fertile fields will eventually turn into seas of sand.

So, who left the landform records of the Sahara Oasis era? Could it be that the ancients who relied on simple tools to make a living could actually draw such accurate and complete maps? There are countless similar examples. enumerate. Looking at these ancient maps, we notice:

The land they plot is the topography of the earth thousands, or even tens of thousands of years ago, and these maps are drawn very accurately. To draw such a map, one must master scientific knowledge of the shape of the earth, the structure of the earth, spherical trigonometry, etc. In addition, advanced means of transportation and mapping are also necessary.

Although many navigators in the Middle Ages had nautical maps, most of them knew little about the earth, and they did not even know whether it was flat or round, let alone whether it was flat or round. No one has been to Antarctica. Therefore, it is impossible for them to draw the ancient maps mentioned above. Especially people in the Middle Ages knew nothing about those continents that had disappeared. There is a big difference between the size of the Mediterranean island marked on some ancient maps and the current island. This shows that the island was very large when the map was drawn, but it was only transformed into what it is today after being washed away by the sea over time. Such size. Based on this speculation, people can know that these maps were drawn tens of thousands of years ago.

Some maps also show areas such as Britain and Ireland that are now covered by glaciers, but in fact these glaciers existed 10,000 years ago. In short, all this shows that these ancient maps were not drawn by people in the Middle Ages.

So who drew these ancient maps? Some scientists believe that there are only two possibilities: one is aliens, and the other is ancient people on earth. However, there is no conclusive evidence to confirm both views. Therefore, the ancient map remains a mystery to this day.