Kitab-ı Bahriye

[Strix]

It's a book of navigation created by a Turkish Admiral named Piri Reis.

I was flipping through the TV channels this morning and they had an alien conspiracy show on, and it mentioned a map created by Piri Reis that accurately depicted the parts of the world that it included even areas that had not been fully explored yet. What I really found odd was that the map accurately depicted Antarctica's coastline how it would have looked several hundred years before it was discovered (and altered by ice).  The map also accurately shows rivers and other items of interest that had not yet been thoroughly explored.

Anyways, has anyone heard about this and any thoughts from alien conspiracy buffs?

[Maximus]

Yea I read about the map of Antarctica. The best explanation I heard is that it was copied from earlier maps that had been made before the coastline was covered with ice. No idea how feasible that is since I don't know when that would have to have been.

[Caliga]

You just now are hearing about the Piri Reis map?  I'm surprised, since alot of the people around here interested in history (i.e. nearly everyone) find pre-Columbian contact theories to be especially interesting.

The theory that it "accurately maps Antarctica" is total bullshit IMO.  There are some coincidental similarities.

Geographers have theorized since antiquity that a 'Terra Australis' must have existed because in their minds it was necessary to balance out the land and the ocean on Earth (for some reason).