Guest CyberDude Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 I found a nice italian site with a large number of old map images. Remember the controversial Piri Reis map? What do you folks think about this subject(and lost continents subject on the side of it)? Ancient maps site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Seraphim Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Oooo.... I love maps! I will definately be taking a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blondton13 Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Remember the controversial Piri Reis map? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, I don't. Could you please refresh my memory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Seraphim Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Actually, I don't. Could you please refresh my memory? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> https://www.sacred-texts.com/piri/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CyberDude Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 https://www.sacred-texts.com/piri/index.htm <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blondton13 Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 https://www.sacred-texts.com/piri/index.htm <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, yes...thank you! Almost forgot my manners! Read the site you posted and I'm still trying to organize my thoughts about it. I will be looking up more info to fill my head. Very interesting theories......interesting indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kelanth Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Very interesting, indeed. Yay, something new to spend hours combing the internet for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CyberDude Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 The whole thing is indeed fascinating and tickles imagination. However nowadays there are few people that actually think Piri Reis was drawing some lost lands at the bottom of South America. Cartography in those days was fairly good but I'd say only in the areas they travelled most (Europe, round Africa, etc) so it seems rather plausible to me to accept that he couldn't really know the shape of the bottom of South America. The projection he used showed weird shores of Antarctica too so I think it's pretty much a drawing error based on scarce information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fledgling666 Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 love checking out anything ancient, especially items of discovery such as maps. read the second link and have to admit, i agree with the conclusion, though the writer's attitude led me to believe that he believed otherwise until at least half-way through. piri re'is looks like just a bad drawing of south america, or maybe even central america, the upper bulge being the yucatan penninsula, the lower coastline being columbia, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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