Piri Reis Map Atlantis

Piri Reis Map Atlantis. 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

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). Most intriguingly, it also includes a representation of Antarctica, centuries before its official discovery in 1820.

Maps of Piri Reis Harmony of art and science Daily Sabah

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. The map has garnered attention because it appears to show an ice-free Antarctic coastline. It was a composite of detail gleaned from a large collection of maps, including one allegedly captured from Christopher Columbus (i), that were collected by Piri Ibn Haji Mehmed (1465/70-1553), an admiral or 'reis' in the Ottoman navy and noted by Rand Flem-Ath as a former.

. The map drawn by Piri Re'is dated to the month of Muharrem 919 AH (corresponding to spring 1513 CE) is well known in the fringe literature Piri Reis map is a world map created by Ottoman-Turkish cartographer Ahmed Muhiddin Piri in 1513

. 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. 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).