Hi Everyone,
Recently I came across an article online about some very ancient maps (16th century) that show South America, Alaska when it was still connected by the land bridge to Siberia (which was thousands of years ago), the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Antarctica’s coast line before the ice formed which is estimated to be around 6000BC!!!
These maps were according to stories, were copied from even earlier maps, that were originally kept in the Great Library of Alexandria, destroyed by invading Arabs in AD 640. A Turkish pirate by the name of Piri Reis (beheaded in 1554) claimed he had based his map on 20 old maps.
The Piri Reis map, long known to scholars, shows Antarctica, South America and the coast of the South Pole accurately as well as measuring the latitude and circumference of the earth. According to Hapgood, the mapmakers responsible for the earliest maps must in some ways have been more technically advanced than sixteenth-century Europe and the ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt and Babylonia.
A man by the name of Charles Hapgood who was a professor of the History of Science first came across these maps in the late 1950’s when he was told about them by an old friend who was also a retired Navigator whose hobby it was to study old maps. A copy of the Piri Reis map had made it’s way into the Library of Congress and Charles Hapgood asked to see them. Needless to say, what Hapgood saw convinced him that there was once a much earlier civilisation that they had ever dreamed about, thousands of years earlier than even the Egyptians or Mesopotamia and then this unknown civilisation disappeared or was destroyed in some unknown cataclysm leaving only their advanced scientific knowledge behind.
Was this unknown civilisation the origin of the ‘Atlantis’ Myth? The timing seems to be about right, what do you think??
Here are some websites where you can see the maps and get more information if you are interestedJ
goldenageproject.org.uk
realityzone.com
bibliotecapleyades.net
