Historians still can’t explain what this map knew The Piri Reis Map Fragments: A 1513 World Map That Still Baffles Historians #map #history #worldmap #history #AncientDiscoveries | Life's Biggest Questions

The Piri Reis map to me has always been a fascinating and mysterious artifact. It was stored away in a Turkish palace until it was rediscovered in 1929. While what this map depicts it’s likely just an error (just look at the mess that is the Caribbean on this thing and other old world maps at the time that were more accurate) it does make you wonder. Where did these source maps come from and could they have been as ancient as the last ice age or based on even older source maps that were? What ot

The Piri Reis Map of 1513 depicts the coastline of Antarctica without ice, centuries before the continent’s official discovery. Proponents argue that the map appears to show detailed coastal features that were supposedly only visible thousands of years ago, prior to glaciation. Piri Reis used ancient maps residing in Constantinople supposedly from advanced ancient civilizations that had this knowledge. | Universe Inside You