Piri Reis Map Debunked

The perfection of his projection is the map’s most outstanding feature. The last time queen maudland was icefree was 10 000 years ago, and that doesn't exclude the copied map option. [yarpp] playboy’s 1974 von däniken interview (part 6):

Erich von däniken, in his book chariots of the gods, makes the. In this map, from the famous atlas miller , we see that the still unexplored extremity of the south american continent fold towards east, going to form the mythical austral continent that, touching the indonesian archipelago, continues without a break until the extremity of asia. The piri reis map is the surviving fragment of a 1513 world map compiled from previous sources by the ottoman cartographer piri reis.

It is alleged that it shows the coast of antarctica as well as more south american detail than is reasonable for that date.

It is in the topkapi palace in istanbul, a fabulous museum and the locale for a truly awful movie in the late 1960’s. Fragment of the piri reis map. [yarpp] playboy’s 1974 von däniken interview (part 6): Ancient maps had he curious alignments youtube.