Ancient Mysteries—Piri Reis Map

Article by W. Bro. Rob Lund

Many of you know my interest in the changes in the Earths' geography in the The last time the particular area shown in history and origins of mankind. One of geologic past, particularly during the Ice the Piri Re'is map was free of ice was the books, in my search for truth, that Ages. more than 6000 years ago. This geogra- opened my mind to a more realistic his- phy should have been unknown to the The Piri Re'is map is most interesting tory of our past, was Graham Hancock's ancients and leaves some big mysteries to because of the attribution of the source of “Fingerprints of the Gods”. Most theories explain. its information, and the extraordinary about ancient unknown civilizations are detail of the coastal outlines, particularly While features which suggest advanced based on little or no physical evidence, geographical knowledge are shown in the usually just speculation. What really of South America. map itself, the annotations and illustra- would shake the basis of our knowledge The Piri Re'is map was found in 1929 in tions do not. The map is notated as fol- of history would be an actual artifact. the Imperial Palace in Constantinople. It lows: One such artifact is the first subject dealt is painted on parchment and dated 919 with in this book. This is the Piri Re'is A.H. (in the Islamic calendar), which This country is a waste. map, an accurate map of the earth drawn corresponds to 1513 AD. It is signed by Everything is in ruin and it is long before the "Age of Exploration". an admiral of the Turkish Navy named said that large snakes are found Piri Ibn Haji Memmed, also known as here. For this reason the Portu- The Piri Re'is Map is only one of several Piri Re'is. According to Piri Re'is, the guese infidels did not land on anomalous maps drawn in the 15th Cen- map had been assembled from a set of 20 these shores and these are also tury and earlier, which appear to repre- maps drawn in the time of Alexander the sent better information about the shape of said to be very hot. the continents than should have been Great. known at the time, according to main- The Piri Re'is map is one of the corner- There are also pictures of some strange stream history. Furthermore, this infor- stones of the growing body of evidence animals in the vicinity, of which the text mation appears to have been obtained at for an unknown Ice Age civilization. One reads: some distant time in the past. striking thing about this map is the level And in this country it seems of detail of the coasts and interiors in Piri Re'is, and other well-known 15th that there are white-haired mon- South America. Although the scale is Century map-makers, included the Ant- sters in this shape, and also six- somewhat off, a long, high mountain arctic in their world maps, as did others. horned oxen. The Portuguese range is shown as the source of the rivers Antarctica was not “discovered” until the infidels have written it in their flowing to the coast of South America. 19th Century. This is just the beginning! maps. . . . Anomalous maps also show the Behring However, the best-known feature in the Strait as linking Asia and America, river Piri Re'is map (and other pre-modern This doesn't invalidate the landforms, but deltas which appear much shorter than maps) is the Antarctic coastline without does indicate that whoever wrote these they do today, islands in the Aegean glaciers! notes never actually visited Antarctica. which haven't been above water since the sea-level rise at the end of the ice-age and Our modern knowledge of the coastline See the next page for a copy of the map. under the ice was obtained using seismic huge glaciers covering Britain and Scan- dinavia. Long dismissed as attempts by sounding data from Antarctic expeditions cartographers to fill in empty spaces, in the 1940s and 50s. Sonar is one way to To me, the map is drawn almost as if seen some of the details of the old maps look map the coast under the Antarctic gla- from space! ciers. The other way would be to have very startling when correlated with modern (very mainstream) knowledge of the surveyed them when they were ice-free. No copyright if used for non-profit purposes