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28th October 2014, 16:55
The 500 Year Old Map that Shatters the Official History of the Human Race
Tuesday 28th October 2014 at 07:17 By david-icke
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Ancient Maps Proof of Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock
WvNEVvHgOOY
Published on 2 Oct 2012
David Wilcock interviews Graham Hancock.
I highly recommend watching the full video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvNEVvHgOOY
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WakingTimes October 22, 2014
The 500 Year Old Map that Shatters the Official History of the Human Race
Buck Rogers, Staff Writer
Waking Times
‘If conventional wisdom on the history of the human race is correct, then human
civilization is not old enough, nor was it advanced enough, to account for many of the
mysterious monolithic and archeological sites around the world. Places like Gobekli Tepe
in Turkey, the Bosnian Pyramids, and Adam’s Calendar in South Africa, beg the same
question: if human civilization is supposedly not old enough to have created all of these
sites, then who, or what, had the capacity to create so many elaborate structures
around the globe?
It is clear that our understanding of our own history is incomplete, and there is plenty of
credible evidence pointing to the existence of intelligent and civilized cultures on Earth
long before the first human cultures emerged from the Middle East around 4000BC. The
Admiral Piri Reis world map of 1513 is part of the emerging more complete story of our
history, one that challenges mainstream thinking in big ways.’
http://www.jessicanatasha.com/http://jessicanatasha.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Piri-Reis-Map-Detail.jpg
Mapmaking is a complex and civilized task, thought to have emerged around 1000BC
with the Babylonian clay tablets. Antarctica was officially first sighted by a Russian
expedition in 1820 and is entirely covered in ice caps thought to have formed around 34-
45 million years ago. Antarctica, therefore, should not be seen on any map prior to
1820, and all sighted maps of Antarctica should contain the polar ice caps, which are
supposedly millions of years old.
A world map made by Ottoman cartographer and military admiral, Piri Reis, casts some
doubt on what we think we know about ancient civilization.
The Piri Reis map, which focuses on Western Africa, the East Coast of South America,
and the North Coast of Antarctica, features the details of a coastline that many
historians and geologists believe represents Queen Maud Land, that is, Antarctica.
Remarkably, as represented in this map, the frigid continent was not covered in ice
caps, but, rather, with dense vegetation. How could a map drawn in 1513 feature a
continent that wasn’t discovered until 1820? And if the continent had in fact been
discovered by one of the civilizations known to have emerged after 4000BC, why were
the ice caps not on the map?
The paradoxes presented by the map were of little significance to the world until Charles
Hapgood, a history professor from New Hampshire, USA, claimed that the information in
the Piri Reis map supported a different view of geology and ancient history. Hapgood
believed that the map verified his global geological theory, which explains how portions
of Antarctica could have remained ice-free until 4000BC.
Hapgood’s presentation is so convincing that even famed theoretical physicist and
philosopher Albert Einstein wrote the following supportive forward to a book that Hapgood wrote in 1953:
“His idea is original, of great simplicity, and – if it continues to prove itself – of great
importance to everything that is related to the history of the Earth’s surface.” -Albert Einstein
http://www.diegocuoghi.com/Piri_Reis/Finaeus.jpg
Unquestionably not a hoax, the map is certifiably authentic, but the information on
the map is of mysterious origin. Piri Reis himself notes that the map was drawn
from information sourced from other, older maps, charts and logs, many of which,
Hapgood suggests, may have been copied and transcribed repeatedly since before
the destruction of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, which wiped out the literature
of antiquity and vast cultural knowledge.
This hypothesis opens the door to the possibility that some forgotten ancient civilization
had the capacity to voyage to the Antarctic, charting the earth, with the technology to
make maps, sometime before the ice caps formed. A significant departure from our
present understanding of our history.
The absence of the ice caps in the Piri Reis map is peculiar, and in 1960 Hapgood
brought his theories on this to the attention of the United States Air Force. Hapgood
asked, among other things, if the shape of the continent, as it appeared on the Piri Reis
map, was at all similar to the shape of the continent under the ice, as revealed by
recent Air Force testing of seismic data on the continent. Their answer was astonishing:
“…the geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map agrees very remarkably
with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-
British Antarctic Expedition of 1949.
This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap.
The ice-cap in this region is now about a mile thick.
We have no idea how the data on this map can be reconciled with the supposed state of
geographical knowledge in 1513.
Harold Z. Ohlmeyer
Lt. Colonel, USAF
Commander”
[Fingerprints of the Gods]
.
If Hapgood’s theory has merit, as even Einstein believed, then there was a period of
time from around 13000BC to 6000BC when Antarctica was located more closely to the
equator and was more tropical in climate, much like parts of South America. This was
caused by a sudden shift of the earth’s entire lithosphere, he theorized, simultaneously
moving all of the continents into their present position, a much different view than the
widely accepted explanation offered the plate tectonics theory.
If Antarctica had indeed been further North then than it presently is, and was not
covered in ice only as recently as 6000BC, then who was around back then that could
have mapped it, long before any known civilizations? And who could have done so long
before the advent of the marine chronometer in the 18th century, which finally solved
the problem of accurately tracking longitude on the high seas?
Had the entire Earth already been mapped by 4000BC, by a civilization that has been
forgotten, as analysis of the Piri Reis map and the theories of Charles Hapgood suggest?
Read more: The 500 Year Old Map that Shatters the Official History of the Human Race
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/10/22/500-year-old-map-shatters-official-history-human-race/
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Tuesday 28th October 2014 at 07:17 By david-icke
http://ancientaliens.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/img_02l.jpg
Ancient Maps Proof of Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock
WvNEVvHgOOY
Published on 2 Oct 2012
David Wilcock interviews Graham Hancock.
I highly recommend watching the full video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvNEVvHgOOY
=====================================================
http://www.wakingtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/waking_times_logo_6-5-12_1.jpg
WakingTimes October 22, 2014
The 500 Year Old Map that Shatters the Official History of the Human Race
Buck Rogers, Staff Writer
Waking Times
‘If conventional wisdom on the history of the human race is correct, then human
civilization is not old enough, nor was it advanced enough, to account for many of the
mysterious monolithic and archeological sites around the world. Places like Gobekli Tepe
in Turkey, the Bosnian Pyramids, and Adam’s Calendar in South Africa, beg the same
question: if human civilization is supposedly not old enough to have created all of these
sites, then who, or what, had the capacity to create so many elaborate structures
around the globe?
It is clear that our understanding of our own history is incomplete, and there is plenty of
credible evidence pointing to the existence of intelligent and civilized cultures on Earth
long before the first human cultures emerged from the Middle East around 4000BC. The
Admiral Piri Reis world map of 1513 is part of the emerging more complete story of our
history, one that challenges mainstream thinking in big ways.’
http://www.jessicanatasha.com/http://jessicanatasha.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Piri-Reis-Map-Detail.jpg
Mapmaking is a complex and civilized task, thought to have emerged around 1000BC
with the Babylonian clay tablets. Antarctica was officially first sighted by a Russian
expedition in 1820 and is entirely covered in ice caps thought to have formed around 34-
45 million years ago. Antarctica, therefore, should not be seen on any map prior to
1820, and all sighted maps of Antarctica should contain the polar ice caps, which are
supposedly millions of years old.
A world map made by Ottoman cartographer and military admiral, Piri Reis, casts some
doubt on what we think we know about ancient civilization.
The Piri Reis map, which focuses on Western Africa, the East Coast of South America,
and the North Coast of Antarctica, features the details of a coastline that many
historians and geologists believe represents Queen Maud Land, that is, Antarctica.
Remarkably, as represented in this map, the frigid continent was not covered in ice
caps, but, rather, with dense vegetation. How could a map drawn in 1513 feature a
continent that wasn’t discovered until 1820? And if the continent had in fact been
discovered by one of the civilizations known to have emerged after 4000BC, why were
the ice caps not on the map?
The paradoxes presented by the map were of little significance to the world until Charles
Hapgood, a history professor from New Hampshire, USA, claimed that the information in
the Piri Reis map supported a different view of geology and ancient history. Hapgood
believed that the map verified his global geological theory, which explains how portions
of Antarctica could have remained ice-free until 4000BC.
Hapgood’s presentation is so convincing that even famed theoretical physicist and
philosopher Albert Einstein wrote the following supportive forward to a book that Hapgood wrote in 1953:
“His idea is original, of great simplicity, and – if it continues to prove itself – of great
importance to everything that is related to the history of the Earth’s surface.” -Albert Einstein
http://www.diegocuoghi.com/Piri_Reis/Finaeus.jpg
Unquestionably not a hoax, the map is certifiably authentic, but the information on
the map is of mysterious origin. Piri Reis himself notes that the map was drawn
from information sourced from other, older maps, charts and logs, many of which,
Hapgood suggests, may have been copied and transcribed repeatedly since before
the destruction of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, which wiped out the literature
of antiquity and vast cultural knowledge.
This hypothesis opens the door to the possibility that some forgotten ancient civilization
had the capacity to voyage to the Antarctic, charting the earth, with the technology to
make maps, sometime before the ice caps formed. A significant departure from our
present understanding of our history.
The absence of the ice caps in the Piri Reis map is peculiar, and in 1960 Hapgood
brought his theories on this to the attention of the United States Air Force. Hapgood
asked, among other things, if the shape of the continent, as it appeared on the Piri Reis
map, was at all similar to the shape of the continent under the ice, as revealed by
recent Air Force testing of seismic data on the continent. Their answer was astonishing:
“…the geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map agrees very remarkably
with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-
British Antarctic Expedition of 1949.
This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap.
The ice-cap in this region is now about a mile thick.
We have no idea how the data on this map can be reconciled with the supposed state of
geographical knowledge in 1513.
Harold Z. Ohlmeyer
Lt. Colonel, USAF
Commander”
[Fingerprints of the Gods]
.
If Hapgood’s theory has merit, as even Einstein believed, then there was a period of
time from around 13000BC to 6000BC when Antarctica was located more closely to the
equator and was more tropical in climate, much like parts of South America. This was
caused by a sudden shift of the earth’s entire lithosphere, he theorized, simultaneously
moving all of the continents into their present position, a much different view than the
widely accepted explanation offered the plate tectonics theory.
If Antarctica had indeed been further North then than it presently is, and was not
covered in ice only as recently as 6000BC, then who was around back then that could
have mapped it, long before any known civilizations? And who could have done so long
before the advent of the marine chronometer in the 18th century, which finally solved
the problem of accurately tracking longitude on the high seas?
Had the entire Earth already been mapped by 4000BC, by a civilization that has been
forgotten, as analysis of the Piri Reis map and the theories of Charles Hapgood suggest?
Read more: The 500 Year Old Map that Shatters the Official History of the Human Race
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/10/22/500-year-old-map-shatters-official-history-human-race/
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