The Piri Reis Map
The singular story of the Piri Reis geographical map has taken on, over the years, thanks to further studies, increasingly vast and disconcerting contours.
The Piri Reis map is Turkish, but there are other European and Italian maps that have similar aspects.
The strange story of this paper began in 1929 in Istanbul (which was previously called Constantinople), when it was found drawn on parchment. It was dated in the month of Nuharrem in the year 919 after the prophet: in 1513 of the Christian era. The map was signed by Piri Ibn Haji Memmed, full name of Admiral Piri Reis.
This map caught the attention of a leading American researcher, Arlington Mallery. He demonstrated, by means of calculations, confirmed by subsequent checks, that the map had required very advanced knowledge of spherical trigonometry, which dates back to a very ancient time, a time when the ice of the Antarctic did not yet cover the area of the Regina Maud Earth (Antarctica).
On the map in question are represented in particular the Amazon River, the Gulf of Venezuela, South America, from Baya Blanca to Cape Horn, and finally, as we have said Antarctica, information that no one could possess at that time. Prof. Charles H. Hapgood of Keene State College, New Hampshire, United States assigned the Piri Reis and other similar papers the name "Ancient Sea Kings Maps".
Someone traced this map in a very remote past, and we have received copies such as the Piri Reis or that of Oriontio Fineo, dated 1531. On the latter, the dimensions of the Antarctic continent correspond perfectly to those reported in the most precise modern maps.
Finally, we report that another Turkish map of 1559, the one attributed to Hadjj Ahmed, shows us in turn an unknown land that forms a bridge between Siberia and Alaska through the Bering Strait. This terrestrial passage would reveal many mysteries on the Paleolithic migrations; but having certainly disappeared almost 30,000 years ago it is not possible to understand how a terrestrial civilization, known or unknown, could have known about its existence.
