The 500 Year Old Map that Shatters the Official History of the Human Race
Buck Rogers | If conventional wisdom on the history of the human race
is correct, then human civilization is not old enough, nor was it
advanced enough, to account for many of the mysterious monolithic and
archeological sites around the world. Places like
Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, the
Bosnian Pyramids, and
Adam’s Calendar in
South Africa, beg the same question: if human civilization is
supposedly not old enough to have created all of these sites, then who,
or what, had the capacity to create so many elaborate structures around
the globe?
It is clear that our understanding of our own
history is incomplete, and there is plenty of credible evidence
pointing to the existence of intelligent and civilized cultures on Earth
long before the first human cultures emerged from the Middle East
around 4000BC. The Admiral Piri Reis world map of 1513 is part of the
emerging more complete story of our history, one that challenges
mainstream thinking in big ways.
Mapmaking is a complex and civilized task, thought to have emerged around 1000BC with the
Babylonian clay tablets.
Antarctica was officially first sighted by a Russian expedition in 1820
and is entirely covered in ice caps thought to have formed around 34-45
million years ago. Antarctica, therefore, should not be seen on any map
prior to 1820, and all sighted maps of Antarctica should contain the
polar ice caps, which are supposedly millions of years old.
A world map made by Ottoman cartographer and
military admiral, Piri Reis, casts some doubt on what we think we know
about ancient civilization.
The Piri Reis map, which focuses on Western
Africa, the East Coast of South America, and the North Coast of
Antarctica, features the details of a coastline that many historians and
geologists believe represents Queen Maud Land, that is, Antarctica.
Remarkably, as represented in this map, the frigid continent was not
covered in ice caps, but, rather, with dense vegetation. How could a map
drawn in 1513 feature a continent that wasn’t discovered until 1820?
And if the continent had in fact been discovered by one of the
civilizations known to have emerged after 4000BC, why were the ice caps
not on the map?
The paradoxes presented by the map were of little significance to the world until
Charles Hapgood,
a history professor from New Hampshire, USA, claimed that the
information in the Piri Reis map supported a different view of geology
and ancient history. Hapgood believed that the map verified his global
geological theory, which explains how portions of Antarctica could have
remained ice-free until 4000BC.
Hapgood’s presentation is so convincing that even famed theoretical physicist and philosopher
Albert Einstein wrote the following supportive forward to a book that Hapgood wrote in 1953:
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Albert Einstein
Unquestionably not a hoax, the map is certifiably authentic, but the
information on the map is of mysterious origin. Piri Reis himself notes
that the map was drawn from information sourced from other, older maps,
charts and logs, many of which, Hapgood suggests, may have been copied
and transcribed repeatedly since before the destruction of the
Library of Alexandria in Egypt, which wiped out the literature of antiquity and vast cultural knowledge.
This hypothesis opens the door to the
possibility that some forgotten ancient civilization had the capacity to
voyage to the Antarctic, charting the earth, with the technology to
make maps, sometime before the ice caps formed. A significant departure
from our present understanding of our history.
The absence of the ice caps in the Piri Reis
map is peculiar, and in 1960 Hapgood brought his theories on this to the
attention of the United States Air Force. Hapgood asked, among other
things, if the shape of the continent, as it appeared on the Piri Reis
map, was at all similar to the shape of the continent under the ice, as
revealed by recent Air Force testing of seismic data on the continent.
Their answer was astonishing:
“…the geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map
agrees very remarkably with the results of the seismic profile made
across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic
Expedition of 1949.
This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap.
The ice-cap in this region is now about a mile thick.
We have no idea how the data on this map can be reconciled with the supposed state of geographical knowledge in 1513.
Harold Z. Ohlmeyer
Lt. Colonel, USAF
Commander”
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Fingerprints of the Gods]
If Hapgood’s theory has merit, as even
Einstein believed, then there was a period of time from around 13000BC
to 6000BC when Antarctica was located more closely to the equator and
was more tropical in climate, much like parts of South America. This was
caused by a sudden shift of the earth’s entire lithosphere, he
theorized, simultaneously moving all of the continents into their
present position, a much different view than the widely accepted
explanation offered the plate tectonics theory.
If Antarctica had indeed been further North
then than it presently is, and was not covered in ice only as recently
as 6000BC, then who was around back then that could have mapped it, long
before any known civilizations? And who could have done so long before
the advent of the marine chronometer in the 18th century, which finally
solved the problem of accurately tracking longitude on the high seas?
Had the entire Earth already been mapped by
4000BC, by a civilization that has been forgotten, as analysis of the
Piri Reis map and the theories of Charles Hapgood suggest?
About the Author
Buck Rogers is
the earth bound incarnation of that familiar part of our timeless
cosmic selves, the rebel within. He is a surfer of ideals and meditates
often on the promise of happiness in a world battered by the angry seas
of human thoughtlessness. He is a staff writer for
WakingTimes.com.
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