Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings by Charles H. Hapgood

This was indeed an exciting statement, because for several centuries geographers had been trying without success to find a 'lost map of Columbus' supposed to have been drawn by him in the Western Indies.' 'Piri Re'is made other interesting statements about his source maps. In one of the legends inscribed on the map by Piri Re'is, he stated that he had based the western part of it on a map that had been drawn by Columbus. The map aroused attention because, from the date, it appeared to be one of the earliest maps of America.' 'Another detail of the map excited special attention. It was signed with the name of Piri ibn Haji Memmed, an admiral of the Turkish navy known to us as Piri Re'is. It was painted on parchment, and dated in the month of Muharrem in the Moslem year 919, which is 1513 in the Christian calendar.

'In 1929, in the old Imperial Palace in Constantinople, a map was found that caused great excitement. To the further quesyion, why didn’t somebody else discover all this before, I can only reply that new discoveries usually seem self-evident, by hidsight.” The Piri Re’is Map of 1513 was only rediscovered in 1929, but its authenticity, as will be seen, is sufficiently established. (.) To the inevitable question, are these remarkeble maps genuine, I can only reply that they have all been known for a long time, with one exception. Before the catastrophe of the destruction of the great library many of the maps must have been transferred to other centers, chiefly, perhaps, to Constantinople, which remained a center of learning through the Middle Ages. (.) We have evidence that tehy were collected and studied in the great library of Alexandria and that compilations of them were made by geographers who worked there. “This book contains the story of the discovery of the first hard evidence that advanced peoples preceded all the peoples now known to history. Evidence of Advance Civilization in the Ice Age.

HAPGOOD (Charles H.).- MAPS OF THE ANCIENT SEA KINGS.

Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings by Charles H. Hapgood