Les was originally a Greek and was killed in Cairo in 1554. He is the nephew of the famous pirate Mal Reyes. He has been fighting at sea all his life. It is not uncommon for a man like him to have a chart. However, this map of Les is a rare ancient map, which was not drawn by Les himself or his contemporaries. This map is a copy, and its original version was drawn in extremely distant ancient times. On this map, the continental outlines on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are accurately marked, and the geographical locations of North America and South America are also accurately marked, especially the Amazon River Basin, the Gulf of Venezuela and Cape Horn in South America. What is even more surprising is that the map clearly marks the outline of the whole Antarctica. As we all know, it is generally believed that the Antarctic continent was discovered in 18 18. However, the Antarctic continent on Reyes' map is not only consistent with the modern map, but also shows the coastline on both sides of the Antarctic continent now covered with ice, especially in Molander. Explaining the maps, he said that he consulted 20 sea charts when drawing them, 8 of which were left in BC.
In addition, people found two ancient atlases depicting the Mediterranean and other regions in the Berlin National Library, and also saw the signature of Piri Rice.
1956, Reyes's ancient map of Antarctica was sent to American cartographer Allen Morelj for identification. Morelj was surprised to find that on these maps drawn more than 400 years ago, the topographic features of Antarctica were exactly the same as those measured in 1949. Moreover, Reyes should be regarded as the first person to draw a map of Antarctica in the world. Because in the European Renaissance era in which Les lived, scholars were limited to speculation and debate on Antarctica, an undiscovered continent. Until 1820, no one could mark the location of the Antarctic continent on the map. But Piri Reyes drew a map of the South Pole 300 years in advance, which was only drawn in the 20th century.
Later, these ancient maps of Antarctica drawn by Rice were carefully studied and comprehensively evaluated by Professor Charles Hapgood, director of the Weston Observatory in the United States, and mathematician Chad Stechin Rowe.
Scholars think these ancient maps are very accurate. The actual Antarctic coast without glacier cover and the internal topography without glacier cover are completely consistent with the data detected by echo now, and the mountains and peaks marked in the picture are also very clear. Ancient maps are even beautifully painted in places that people still find it difficult to explore. For example, the Antarctic mountains marked on the map were not discovered until the 1950s.
Some researchers expressed doubts about the rivers marked on the ancient map of Antarctica: How can there be rivers in the cold area called "Ice continent"? After consulting 1949 marine geologists' investigation report on the Ross Sea on the Antarctic margin, it is found that the rock strata stranded on the seabed were consolidated by alluvial materials brought by Antarctic rivers, which has been around for more than 10000 years, and the latest is 6000 years. The research of geological historians shows that Antarctica was still in the temperate period before the Ice Age, with rivers flowing, lush vegetation and vitality.
In other words, the original topographic map of the Antarctic continent has been drawn long before Antarctica was covered by glaciers in ancient times. Is this what the indigenous inhabitants did at that time? I can't imagine.
With further research, scientists found that the ancient map of Piri Reyes is very similar to the photos of the earth taken by satellites. Because after coordinate projection, the ancient map of Antarctica is almost the same as the map with Cairo as the center made by the US Air Force with equidistant photography. Therefore, Professor Charles Yupgude and others pointed out that Rice's ancient map of Antarctica must be a copy of a photo taken from high altitude. It is precisely because of the "aerial photography effect" that South America on ancient maps will be strangely elongated. This coincides with the characteristics of the photos of the earth taken by the American lunar probe.
Scientists not only studied the ancient maps drawn by Rice, but also collected the ancient maps left by Boku and others, and gained new discoveries and inspirations from them. The map of Boku was drawn on 1733. From the map, the Reyes Sea and the Weddell Sea are interconnected. The Antarctic continent is not a whole, but two big islands surrounded by the ocean. The authenticity of this map has always been doubted. It was not until the geophysical year 1968 that scientists finally confirmed that the Boku world map accurately reflected the real situation in Antarctica before the appearance of the ice sheet. Both it and Reyes map record the land and ocean profiles of Antarctica in different geological stages before the ice age.
From 65438 to 0966, Professor Charles Hapgood published a monograph "Ancient Neptune Map", in which he published many years of research results. The professor pointed out: through the identification of several ancient maps, it shows that in prehistoric times, someone may have drawn the topographic and geomorphological map of the oasis era in the Antarctic continent.
Hapgood also described his investigation on the origin and development of ancient maps drawn by Piri Rice and others. He pointed out that the original data for drawing ancient maps of Antarctica may come from BC.
Because this area of Antarctica has been covered by ice for 15000 years, that is to say, Antarctica on Reyes map is drawn according to the geographical state of 15000 years ago.
In fact, Reyes' map is not the only rare ancient map. In 1339, dulce had a nautical chart, which accurately marked the location of the Mediterranean Sea and the whole of Europe. From many facts, this map is also a copy, that is to say, its original drawing time is much earlier than this one. From the map itself, the painter's knowledge of geography is much more comprehensive than that of people in 14, 15 or even 16 century.
On some maps of Ptolemy, Greece, people can see that some areas are still covered by glaciers, while others are not completely covered by glaciers. All these indicate that these maps were drawn in ancient times, because Sweden was covered by glaciers for a long time, and these glaciers had disappeared during the Putolimais dynasty.