Ancient Mapping By A Lost Civilization?
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Hapgood asserted that people, or more
precisely, intelligent Geographers and Navigators had charted the New
World many centuries before Christopher Columbus. His most controversial
claim is that of the mapping of the Antarctic mainland, 6000 years
before it was first sighted in 1820.
- Pre Historic Map Is Almost An Exact Copy Of Modern-Day Antarctica
- Many Experts Are Skeptical
- Other Mysterious Discoveries
Pre Historic Map Is Almost An Exact Copy Of Modern-Day Antarctica
Professor Charles H. Hapgood of New Hampshire University published a remarkable claim, in 1966. He claimed that before history began to be written, someone else had already mapped the world.
His assertions are based on a map drawn in 1530 by the Turkish admiral Piri Re’is. There were some obvious errors such as the Amazon River appearing twice and a stretch of 900 miles of the South American east coast had been left out. But it appears to depict a portion of the Antarctica coastline, without a trace of the ice cover, as it would have appeared thousands of years earlier when the region was much warmer.
The admiral’s map had been drawn from several earlier versions, some possibly dating as far back as Alexander the Great. The only way for him to test his theory was by comparing all the topographical features of Re’is map with modern equivalents. After three years of replotting the original map, using a medieval grid, believed to have been used by sailors of the time, to chart the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Finally a true comparison could be made.
At first it seemed that his research was not going to aid Hapgood’s cause. Drake Passage, which divides South America and Antarctica, had been left out. The Antarctic coast, however, on the ancient map turned out to lie almost in the correct place and virtually matched the present-day outline of an area referred to as Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
In 1531 a cartographer named Oronteus Finaeus had drawn a map of the area and Prof. Hapgood turned to this map, to further prove that the ancients had possessed a detailed knowledge of the Antarctic geography.
“the general shape of the continent was startlingly lie the outline of the continent on our modern map,” he wrote. The position of the South Pole, nearly in the center of the continent, seemed about right.
Many Experts Are Skeptical
The mountains that skirted the coasts suggested the numerous ranges that have been discovered in Antarctica in recent years.”
He also claims to have identified several other geographical features and suggests that the Finaeus as well as the Piri Re’is maps had been drawn from charts made in pre-history, before Antarctica became ice covered.
Who might these mysterious explorers and mapmakers have been? Perhaps they belonged to a lost civilization of “ancient sea kings,” whose forgotten skills were meant to be discovered by future generations.
Many experts are sceptical about Hapwood’s claims, pointing out that medieval cartographers often drew an imagined southern continent, simply to make the world seem more symmetrical and say that several ancient maps are wildly imagined, with countries and coastlines, hundreds of miles from where they are supposed to be.
Charles Hapwood died in 1982, leaving others to decide whether his work is an important clue to the wisdom of the ancients, or simply a cartographic wild-goose chase
Other Mysterious Discoveries
There are many mysteries of lost civilizations and sunken cities resting on ocean floors awaiting inquiring minds to discover them. To coin a phrase from the author Ian Flemming’s James Bond Movies of the title: “The World Is Not Enough”. Which by implication, means that there is much yet to be uncovered.
Here for your reading pleasure, is an extract taken from the website “World-Mysteries.com”
• A pyramid explored by Dr Ray Brown on the sea floor off the Bahamas in 1970. Brown was accompanied by 4 divers who also found roads, domes, rectangular buildings, unidentified metallic instruments, and a statue holding a "mysterious" crystal containing miniature pyramids. The metal devices and crystals were taken to Florida for analysis at a university there. What was discovered was that the crystal amplified energy that passed through it.
• Ruins of roads and buildings found off Binini Island in the 1960's by the photographed and published expeditions of Dr Mansan Valentine. Similar ruins were also photographed off Cay Sal in the Bahamas. Similar underwater ruins were found off Morocco and photographed 50 to 60 feet underwater.
• A huge 11 room pyramid found 10,000 feet under water in the mid Atlantic Ocean with a huge crystal top, as reported by Tony Benlk.
• A 1977 report of a huge pyramid found off Cay Sal in the Bahamas, photographed by Ari Marshall's expedition, about 150 feet underwater. The pyramid was about 650 feet high. Mysteriously the surrounding water was lit by sparkling white water flowing out of the openings in the pyramid and surrounded by green water, instead of the black water everywhere else at that depth.
• A sunken city about 400 miles off Portugal found by Soviet expeditions led by Boris Asturua, with buildings made of extremely strong concrete and plastics. He said "the remains of streets suggests the use of monorails for transportation". He also brought up a statue.
• A marble acropolis underwater across five acres of fluted columns raised on pillars.
• Heinrich Schilemann, the man who found and excavated the famous ruins of Troy (which historians thought was only a legend), reportedly left a written account of his discovery of a bronze vase with a metal unknown to scientists who examined it, in the famous Priam Treasure. Inside it are glyphs in Phoenician stating that it was from King Chronos of Atlantis. Identical pottery was found in Tiajuanaco, Bolivia.
Many other examples of roads, buildings and columns are available, many of them made with materials not available in their areas.
Many ancient maps are also known to have Atlantis on them, including the ancient Greek ones studied by Christopher Columbus before he set sail for America.
Source: http://www.world-mysteries.com
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