The Piri Reis Map has been examined by experts and found to be amazingly accurate.
The Piri Reis Map, which dates back to 1513, has been found by modern scientists to be amazingly accurate. Is it possible that the information it contains came from a lost civilization? Or an alien one?
In 1953, the Piri Reis Map was examined by the experts from the United States Navy Hydrographic Bureau. An expert on ancient maps was called in to assist.
In order to check the map's accuracy, a grid was prepared and the information from the Piri Reis Map was transferred onto a globe. Not only was the map completely accurate, but the Hydrographic Office was able to correct some errors on modern-day maps!
The startling conclusion of the experts who examined the map was that the only way a map with this level of accuracy could have been drawn would be through the use of data collected from an aerial survey! What civilization would have existed 6,000 years ago with this level of technology?
Further study of the Map's properties revealed that although it was plotted using units of measurement we are familiar with (latitudes and longitudes), it was copied from much earlier maps that were prepared using spherical trigonometry, which was developed by modern man in the middle of the 18th century. Whoever made the earlier map would have known that the Earth was round and was also able to accurately perform the steps required to calculate its circumference (within 50 miles).
One theory about how the coast of Antarctica could have been mapped so accurately puts forward the idea that Antarctica was not always located at the South Pole. Some scholars have suggested that at one time Antarctica was located 2,000 miles to the north and that over time its location slowly shifted south.
We might be able to accept that at one point in time Antarctica was located further north and wasn't always ice-covered. As for who was able to draw such an accurate map so long ago, that mystery remains unsolved.
