Pre-Glacial Maps
After looking at the representations of Antarctica on maps dating back to the time of Columbus, let's delve deeper into the enigmatic origins of these maps. Who drew the world before the ice melted?
Regarding the discovery of America, we have seen in the previous article "The Impossible Maps" how Christopher Columbus already knew about the New Continent even before reaching it, thanks to mysterious nautical charts in his possession that detailed the American coasts and other then-unknown lands. The Genoese navigator himself provided the Ottoman admiral Pirî Raïs Ibn Mehmet, better known to Westerners as Piri Re'is, with detailed information that enabled the Turkish officer to accurately draw the profile of the American coasts, as he himself stated in his autobiography titled "Bahriye," meaning "collection." The collection comprised about 120 maps enclosed in a single collection called the Book of the Seas, discovered in Istanbul at the Topkapi Palace in the 18th century and dated between 1513 and 1528. Some of these appeared strange because the lands represented were distorted; later, the reason for this puzzling enigma was discovered.
The 1528 map clearly depicted Greenland and all of North America, starting from Canada with the Labrador and Newfoundland peninsulas, down to Florida. In addition to these, Piri Re'is possessed many other maps and globes dating back to the time of Alexander the Great. It is evident that if such maps were in the possession of the Macedonian conqueror, he too, when he set out for the East, already knew the lands and the peoples who inhabited them. On one of the maps drawn by Alexander, also known by the Arabs and called "Djaferye," the territories of Pakistan, India, and China were perfectly depicted, while another map that ended up in Columbus's hands, the famous Piri Re'is map, showed the profiles of the coasts of Central and South America and the Caribbean islands. On the right side of the same map, the coasts of France, Spain, and Africa could be recognized.
But what impressed the team of scientists the most was the depiction of a part of the Antarctic continent, a land that should have been unknown at the time. Only recently was the map studied and recognized by scholars at the University of New Hampshire, including Professor Charles Hapgood. Columbus not only knew of the existence of these lands, but he was also aware of the populations living there and their way of life. This is also evidenced by the fact that Columbus brought glass beads with him when he set out, as he knew that the inhabitants of the New World loved such trinkets. These habits concerning the Native Americans were described in a letter sent to the Genoese navigator by his brother Bartholomew; however, it is unknown from whom he obtained this information.
According to the Genoese navigator, the maps came from the Library of Alexandria during the time of Alexander the Great. Almost certainly, the documents kept in the library were used by all the ancient peoples who reached America and other lands before Columbus, and perhaps even the Templars. That Columbus already had information about America is known from the revelations of Father Bartolomé de Las Casas and his writings, where he states that the Genoese admiral did not go on an adventure or in search of the Indies; his voyage was calculated from the beginning, and he already knew which route to follow to reach America.
Because of these assertions, the friar earned the disdain of the populace, who saw Columbus as a hero and missionary. However, few knew that he was right; he had no ill intentions toward the navigator and did not seek to discredit him. The friar was merely concerned about the fate of the Indigenous people and aimed for a humane and peaceful mission to ensure they were not mistreated by the conquerors.
Today, it is no longer a mystery that ancient peoples, including Vikings, Celts, Greeks, Phoenicians, Etruscans, Egyptians, and even various ethnic groups from the African continent, set out to explore these lands. They possessed precise directions, perhaps inherited from an advanced civilization that lived millennia earlier and knew the entire planet perfectly. Today, it is known without a doubt that the entire Earth was already known to almost all ancient peoples.
As we have often emphasized, famous philosophers like Plato mentioned the American continent, reachable by sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands, located beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, known at the time as the Pillars of Hercules. Other ancient sacred texts speak of the New Continent, such as the Indian "Vishnu Purana": the text describes America as "a great continent divided in two in the shape of an arc under the Sea of Milk." The arc described in the Indian document refers to the arc formed by the Panama Strait, while the "Sea of Milk" was the Arctic ice cap that at the time covered much of North America, the North Pole of that era. Thus, it is clear that the ancient text was referring to a remote time when most of the lands were covered by ice, that is, more than 12,000 years ago during the Ice Age.
Herodotus, on the other hand, spoke in the 5th century BCE of a tablet belonging to Aristagoras of Miletus on which all the seas of the world were depicted, or of Viking maps depicting Canada.
Among the most striking maps are those of Oronteus Finaeus dated 1532, which show the entire Antarctic continent, "officially" discovered only in 1818, and the Cordiform Planisphere, also depicting Antarctica, by Finaeus and dated even earlier, in 1519. There is also the map by Giorgio Calopodio from 1537, also showing Terra Australis, or the one by the Florentine Francesco Rosselli, which depicts the entire globe with Antarctica and is even older, dated 1506, but looks so modern that it seems like a contemporary planisphere.
However, the most surprising of all was a map that enabled the Venetian brothers Niccolò and Antonio Zeno to undertake a journey in 1380 in the northern seas, where Greenland was depicted free of ice! This means that the data on these maps certainly dates back to before the last glaciation, making them even older. Who provided these ancient cartographers with all the information to draw such detailed maps of unknown continents at the time? And, more importantly, what mysterious and advanced civilization inhabited the planet in those days?
What impresses scholars the most is that when studying the distorted maps mentioned earlier with modern tools, it was found that these distortions occurred because the mapmakers based their drawings on the spherical shape of the Earth. The imperfections were due to the two-dimensional drawing on paper; this means that the maps were drawn or "photographed" from great heights, based on aerial photographs! Consequently, when placed according to the spherical shape, the outlines of the continents appeared perfectly in place. These are the conclusions that scholars have reached.
We therefore ask, how was this possible? Various researchers often come to the thesis that only beings from another planet on flying ships could have accomplished such feats. This is because the maps are based on strange figures found all over the world, depicting beings in cave engravings or prehistoric cave paintings resembling astronauts with helmets and suits, and drawings of objects similar to rockets or airplanes.
We have no doubt that other forms of life exist in our galaxy and beyond; we have always been convinced of this, despite those who remain skeptically opposed at all costs. But it might also be an unknown and very ancient human civilization that lived on Earth many thousands of years ago, before the ice ages. Human civilization cannot have developed in just 2,500 years. Recent discoveries of previously unknown civilizations, such as the advanced ancient peoples who inhabited the Siberian steppes, the Arctic, and China, push history back by several thousand years. These include the Tocharians, Ainu, or Pazyryk, who lived around 7000 BCE and, after the ice age, gave rise to many other cultures, including the Celts, and various forms of unknown writings found worldwide that are older than those known today.
Additionally, the megalithic monuments scattered around the world, which are many thousands of years old, could not have been erected by primitive humans. The signs left on these monuments represent star maps that reproduced the sky as it was around 12,000 or 13,000 years ago, indicating that they were great astronomers. It is also overlooked that primitive man did not live in this era, as the period is too short for such rapid evolution. If these beings were considered ape-like with the brain of an animal, they could not have erected such monuments.
Moreover, the human giants, whose bones have been found scattered around the world, are no longer a mystery to current science and have been dated to thousands of years old.
The giants in ancient traditions are always considered wise and bearers of knowledge and civilization, as if they belonged to a superior, evolved culture. Finally, there is no consideration of the technological objects or surprising human footprints found among the oldest geological layers where, according to official science, humans could not have existed. How then can we explain all these historical anomalies? These could be proofs that a technologically advanced human civilization is much older than previously believed, and it makes no sense to think that during the times of the Egyptians, Mycenaeans, Sumerians, Phoenicians, etc., people lacked knowledge; instead, they could have inherited it from their ancestors.
Civilization did not begin in 2500 BCE!
The Impossible Maps clearly demonstrate this, showing detailed and unusual particulars such as the presence of islands and peninsulas that no longer appear on today's maps. The humanoid figures depicted in cave paintings could, therefore, hypothetically represent ancient terrestrial astronauts rather than alien invaders, as proponents of the extraterrestrial hypothesis claim.
These men, as demonstrated by the megalithic-astronomical circles, had a perfect knowledge of astronomy and the motion of planets and stars. They used the Earth's energies and, in light of what has been said, knew how to fly. There have already been other planetary destructions that changed the appearance of the landmasses and destroyed others, such as the cataclysm that ended the Mesozoic Era 65 million years ago. One of these destructions occurred about 12,000 years ago, and it is now widely accepted that this is the event passed down in all world cultures as the Great Flood. The sudden melting of the ice led to global floods and a 130-meter rise in sea levels across all oceans.
The survivors had to live with what nature provided in a world where the habitable surface had significantly reduced. These survivors, orphans of their civilization, might have depicted themselves and their flying machines in cave paintings; a primitive man would not have had the intellect (and artistic sensitivity) to search for and process the various pigments to use in the caves and create a work of art by blending colors with spray techniques and harmoniously juxtaposing them. The survivors taught and passed on scientific and technical knowledge to those who came after them.
As shown by the ancient sacred texts of various historical populations that we know, these later peoples unfortunately lost all knowledge due to wars and invasions, leading to the destruction of ancient texts and an unstoppable decline. The descendant civilizations remembered these civilizers as ancient deities. Unfortunately, archaeological excavations today cannot provide further proof of these theories, only clues. Cataclysms of planetary proportions or tectonic upheavals could have buried everything under tons of geological layers.
If our civilization were destroyed by a planetary catastrophe, the survivors would remember a land different from the one we know today. Consequently, our descendants would find themselves with maps created by people from the past, whose geography might appear different from the one depicted by us, their distant ancestors.
