Maps of ancient civilizations
There are many legends circulating about ancient mysterious maps that would show then unknown lands, like for Antarctica.
Here is in brief what is said about these maps.
A well-known mysterious map is the Oronteus Finaeus geographical map of 1531 which was copied from ancient maps themselves copied from ancient maps.
In the Oronteus Finaeus map Antarctica features plains, mountains and rivers, and is not covered in ice. It was the ice that prevented the discovery of Antarctica up until 1820 and it was only in 1949 that we began to know what was under the Antarctic ice cap.
The mountains, plains and rivers of Antarctica shown on this map appeared in the 1949 geological study, with which they coincided. But what's even more shocking about this map is that Antarctica is exactly where it should have been before the global cataclysm.
However, according to some scientists it is not Antarctica that is represented.
There are other ancient geographic maps that show Antarctica free of ice.
The first map to mention is the planisphere of 1508 attributed to the cartographer Francesco Rosselli, surprisingly showing Antarctica more or less as we know it today, even represented with large green areas and even with the apparent indication of notable sites and perhaps even city.
There is no doubt that this map was copied from maps originally drawn in an era prior to the global cataclysm, when Antarctica was ice-free and evidently inhabited.
The second geographical map to mention is the Piri Reis map of 1513, which was drawn on the basis of ancient maps in turn copied from other ancient maps.
The map shows Africa, South America, and what appears to be part of Antarctica to within half a degree, an accuracy impossible until the explorations of the 1770s, as well as the discovery of Antarctica in the 1820s.
Part of Antarctica is shown in the map without the ice, exactly as the Antarctic continent must have been before the glaciation, and there are strange anomalies. The outline of the South American coast and the drawn continental hydrography are consistent with the landscape that must have appeared before the global catastrophe. Furthermore, a large island is reported, now submerged, while the Azores are much more extensive than today, evidently due to the sea level in the glacial period. The study of the map shows that it was part of a planisphere obtained through an equidistant azimuthal projection, centered near Cairo. So it appears that the civilization that drew the original map resided in Egypt.
A map showing integer parts similar to the Piri Reis map, including the part that appears to depict Antarctica, is Lopo Homen's 1519 Portuguese planisphere, probably copied from the same sources.
Another map to mention dates back to 1665, when a German Jesuit priest, Athanasius Kircher published Mundus Subterraneus.
The book contains the reproduction of an ancient Egyptian map of Atlantis, in which unfortunately the Jesuit priest puts Atlantis in a wrong position, too high, as he misinterprets the Egyptian references of the map, such as the fact that for the Egyptians north was south, i.e. the direction in which the Nile flowed.
The mysterious continent drawn could be Antarctica before the global cataclysm.
