Piri Reis Map Atlantis

Piri Reis Map Atlantis. Map of Piri Reis on Behance 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 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.


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Additionally, it raises intriguing questions about how such knowledge might have been preserved and integrated into the Piri Reis Map. Others hypothesized the possible involvement of a civilization based around the Lost City of Atlantis

[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 What connection might Atlantis have with the Piri Reis Map? If Atlantis existed, its people could have had advanced cartographic skills that influenced this map Others hypothesized the possible involvement of a civilization based around the Lost City of Atlantis

. Most intriguingly, it also includes a representation of Antarctica, centuries before its official discovery in 1820. The Topkapı Palace where the map was discovered, viewed from the Bosporus

. 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. Others hypothesized the possible involvement of a civilization based around the Lost City of Atlantis