Chapter 8 The Mystery of Ancient Maps

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, in the Topkapi Palace in Constantinople, several private maps belonging to a commander of the Turkish-Oman naval fleet named Reis were found. These maps are not original, but are based on older According to his appendix, these older maps showing the entire world inhabited by humans existed in the third century BC. These maps were amazed by experts, and were sent to Linanham, the director of the Wyston Observatory, an expert in U.S. Navy cartography, in 1957. After detailed analysis, a shocking report came out. These maps were not only accurate , also including places that have hitherto been little explored and not discovered at all.

For example, in Antarctica, one of the islands was not discovered by the French until 1739, and Antarctica was not discovered until 1821. The ancient people did not know the existence of this place, but it was accurately shown on the map. sketched out.What's even more astonishing is that Antarctica is covered by thick ice, and no one knows what's inside the ice, but the mountains are very accurately delineated on the map, and even their heights are marked.It was only in 1952 that we were able to find out the mountains and their heights with seismic wave detectors. How could ancient mapmakers know?It is hidden under the ice layer as deep as 400 meters.

Even if Antarctica was not covered by ice in ancient times, did the ancients have that kind of superb geomorphological surveying technique?