Piri Reis Map Atlantis

Piri Reis Map Atlantis. The Topkapı Palace where the map was discovered, viewed from the Bosporus The great debate was sparked by Professor Charles Hapgood when he published his theory on the Piri Reis map in his book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings in 1965

Most intriguingly, it also includes a representation of Antarctica, centuries before its official discovery in 1820. Piri Reis map is a world map created by Ottoman-Turkish cartographer Ahmed Muhiddin Piri in 1513

Piri Reis Map of the City of Damietta on the Egyptian Coast Stock Photo Alamy

Additionally, it raises intriguing questions about how such knowledge might have been preserved and integrated into the Piri Reis Map. Piri Re'is was an admiral of the Turkish navy and this map, showing the Atlantic Ocean, West Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and lands on the western side of the Ocean, seems to have been based on twenty different maps. The map has garnered attention because it appears to show an ice-free Antarctic coastline.

Piri Reis Map and Claims of Antarctica Archaeology Review. Most intriguingly, it also includes a representation of Antarctica, centuries before its official discovery in 1820. The great debate was sparked by Professor Charles Hapgood when he published his theory on the Piri Reis map in his book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings in 1965

Piri Reis Map of Several Islands of the Eastern Aegean Sea Including Leros and Patmos Stock. This arguably depicts an ice-free Antarctica and has been used to develop the idea that Atlantis had been located there and was destroyed when a sudden pole shift caused the southern icecap to move to its present position. The most widely referred to map in relation to Atlantis as well as advanced ancient civilisations is the Piri Reis chart