Oldest Map Of The World Showing Antarctica. The baffling Piri Reis Map of 1513. Dozens of theories have been put forward to try and explain the mystery of the Piri Reis Map.
Official science has been saying all along that the icecap which covers the Antarctic is millions of years old. Dozens of theories have been put forward to try and explain the mystery of the Piri Reis Map. More commonly known as the Babylonian Map of the World the Imago Mundi is considered the oldest surviving world map.
The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis Turkish.
The Antarctic or Antarctica Circle is one of the five major circles or parallels of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. In the 16 th Century Haji Ahmed Muhiddin Piri was an admiral in the Turkish navy which at the time never ventured beyond the Mediterranean or the Black Sea. The Antarctic or Antarctica Circle is one of the five major circles or parallels of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. The map was created around 1160 BCE and due to diligent ancient Egyptian record keeping researchers know who drew the map and what it was for.
