Antarctic underground lake could hold secrets of Earth's past (29)
vyoleta: A lake hidden beneath three kilometres of ice in the western Antarctic could reveal what life on Earth looked like up to a million years ago and narrow down the search for extraterrestrial life.
IGood Informative Post ,God created Unlimited Treasure underGround 
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The point is, if they go that deep,surely will find something to tell us. What??,who knows.
vyoleta: Quite possible. There is one of the world's mysteries called the Piri Reis map (16th century), which shows Antarctic before it was covered with ice. And it is estimated to be million years ago.
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chris27292729: The point is, if they go that deep,surely will find something to tell us. What??,who knows.
Maybe they will tell me where does my love live.
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Aegean sea????
vyoleta: Maybe they will tell me where does my love live.
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vyoleta: Quite possible. There is one of the world's mysteries called the Piri Reis map (16th century), which shows Antarctic before it was covered with ice. And it is estimated to be million years ago.
Interesting read on inaccuracies of medieval mapping practices
On August 1, 2006 a beautifully illustrated book by Alessandro Scafi, dedicated to those medieval maps, was published by University Of Chicago Press: "Il paradiso in terra - Mappe del giardino dell'Eden (Heaven on earth - Maps of the garden of Eden)". The scholar discloses that the purpose of such maps, far from “practical" navigation, was the location of sacred places of the Bible. Theologians especially argued that the Garden of Eden had really existed and still was extant at the remote borders of the known world.
"The depiction of paradise came to play an important role in mapping expressing a vision founded on the Bible. The world maps produced in monasteries and cathedrals of Western Europe were not, however, exposition of theology, pastoral documents and statements of devotion, unlike our modern and scientific representations of the Earth, neither were they instruments of religious propaganda or preaching in visual form. They were rather representations of the world according to a particular concept, a concept that took account of the text of Scripture and the teachings of the Christian faith. Assessed according to their criteria, medieval maps of the world were actually less "scientific" than any other document. (...) It is 'important to understand that to Christian scholars of late antiquity and the Middle Ages the Bible provided the key to all forms of knowledge. In the Sacred Scriptures was certainly the spiritual and religious, but also the most authoritative guide on the creation of the world and history of the human race. The Bible might not provide a great deal of geographical information, but it was the key reference in the study of cosmology, philosophy and history" (Alessandro Scafi 2007).
"Historians can do something God cannot do. They can change history." ~Butler, in Erehome Revisited
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vyoleta: Quite possible. There is one of the world's mysteries called the Piri Reis map (16th century), which shows Antarctic before it was covered with ice. And it is estimated to be million years ago.
Your post interested me so I did some digging on the subject.
The same map that correctly shows Antarctica as it exists under the ice also correctly shows that Greenland is composed of three separate islands under it's ice. A fact that couldn't be confirmed until about 50 years ago.
The maker said that he had studied many ancient maps in the process of making the map. Some of them must have been really really old.
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RayfromUSA: Your post interested me so I did some digging on the subject.
The same map that correctly shows Antarctica as it exists under the ice also correctly shows that Greenland is composed of three separate islands under it's ice. A fact that couldn't be confirmed until about 50 years ago.
The maker said that he had studied many ancient maps in the process of making the map. Some of them must have been really really old.
The same map that correctly shows Antarctica as it exists under the ice also correctly shows that Greenland is composed of three separate islands under it's ice. A fact that couldn't be confirmed until about 50 years ago.
The maker said that he had studied many ancient maps in the process of making the map. Some of them must have been really really old.
I guess that's why the exploration of Antarctic would also be aimed to
narrow down the search for extraterrestrial life.
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vyoleta: I guess that's why the exploration of Antarctic would also be aimed to
narrow down the search for extraterrestrial life.
narrow down the search for extraterrestrial life.
What has an underground lake got to do with finding aliens?
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Quite possible. There is one of the world's mysteries called the Piri Reis map (16th century), which shows Antarctic before it was covered with ice. And it is estimated to be million years ago.