Piri Reis Map Atlantis

Piri Reis Map Atlantis. Illustrated piri reis map on Craiyon 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


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The most widely referred to map in relation to Atlantis as well as advanced ancient civilisations is the Piri Reis chart The Topkapı Palace where the map was discovered, viewed from the Bosporus

Drawn on gazelle skin by an Ottoman-Turkish admiral and cartographer Ahmet Muhiddin Piri, best known as Piri Reis, the map is extremely detailed for its time. The Piri Reis Map of 1513 is the first surviving map that shows the Americas (the Vinland map may be older but only shows a part of North America). The Piri Reis Map, measuring approximately 90 x 65 cm, is drawn on gazelle skin and shows parts of the coasts of Africa, Europe and South America with surprising accuracy

. The Piri Reis Map (1513) (c) was a world map drawn on a gazelle skin of which only the left-hand side still exists The Topkapı Palace where the map was discovered, viewed from the Bosporus

. [7] He sailed with his uncle Kemal Reis [8] as a Barbary pirate until Kemal Reis received an official position in the Ottoman Navy in 1495 He and a team of students at the University of New Hampshire studied the map and found many anomalies, such as the use of mercatorial projection and the inclusion of a pre-ice Antarctica.