Your history books lie
We are taught in school that civilization began with Sumer and later the Bronze Age. Before that was the ice age when vast sheets of ice over a mile thick in some places covered the Earth..There was no civilization before that, or so we are taught.
Consider then this map. "Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata" It was released by Gerardus Mercator in the year 1569. Allegedly he made it using the accounts of sailors and fragments of much older maps from the Mid East.
Most humans today do not notice two improbable features about this map.
In 1541 there emerged a printing of a map drawn in the second century by Ptolemy. Ptolemy maintained it was a copy of a much older map that had been rescued from the ashes of the library at Alexandria.
Here is that map. Again, features exist most did not realize until fairly recently although one should be immediately obvious.
The 1569 map of Mercator, look in the lower left corner. Do you recognize that continent? Antarctica. When was Antarctica discovered and mapped?
Would you believe not until1819? It is true.
Note the land masses near between Australia and Asia on the Mercator map. Note also the shape of the Mediterranean. Until about 50 hyears ago those were believed to be mere map errors. Today however we know those were accurate representations of those areas, back around 30,000 years ago or so. Before the last ice age began. When the miles thick ice melted those areas flooded as the sea rose.
Now look at the Ptolemey map. Again, two things. The same land masses now known to be accurate pre-ice age representations of the coast lines drawn in a time we had no mariners and no civilization, or so we are taught.
Something else on Ptolemey's map. Something that won't be seen again on a map for decades and decades. Latitude and Longitude marks. Calculating latitude is easy. The angle of the sun (or certain agreed upon stars such as Polaris) can be used to detemine that. However calculating Longitude requires something which durn sure (supposedly) did not exist in the time before the ice age, nor in the time of the Library at Alexandria, nor in Ptolemey's time either. Indeed it did not even exist in 1541 when Ptolemy's map was re-printed.
To calculate Longitude you need a chronometer (i.e., an accurate clock) able to measure exactly how many minutes away you are from an agreed upon central reference point (today we use Greenwich, England). The problem with Ptolemy's map is simple. His map set the zero lattitude at the equator, something he should not have known of yet and he copied longitude marks onto his 2nd century copy almost 1,100 years before longitude was again recalculated in 1350 or so.
So what does this give us? Amazingly accurate pre ice age maps showing yet to be discovered continents with a grid coordinate system from a time in which supposedly there was no civilization, no commerce, no need for maps and no technology to use or make them with anyway.
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books, maps, Bible, etc, are merely attempted
answers to our various questions over time.
Those answers are usually along the lines of
what we WANT to hear, not what is true. Or
sometimes they are written to gain control over
the people.
The truth exists.....it's just that nobody cares to
hear it.
Nice to see you...
Well it does happen...events or deeds are sometimes misrepresented...depends on who writes historical events...
My history teacher in high school pointed out that some authors purposely wrote non truths of what really happened during WW2...Canadian war efforts were not mentioned...funny isn't it...
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History is written by the victors and/or has strong nationalistic and politicial leanings.
I remember hearing something about this on the show Ancient Aliens.
It is a mystery how Antarctica found its way on that map. Perhaps aliens?
They suggest.