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Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map. The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt, Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I (r. 1512 ...
Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis.The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward (1851–1936), who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. [1]
Ancient World. 24 (2): 169– 184. Fox, Michael; Reimer, Stephen R (2008). Mappae Mundi: Representing the World and Its Inhabitants In Texts, Maps, and Images In Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edmonton: Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta. ISBN 9781551951874. OCLC 227019112. Goffart, Walter (2003).
In Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome,” edited by Richard J.A. Talbert, 47 – 79. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Tait, John. “The ‘Book of the Fayum’: Mystery in a Known Landscape.” In Mysterious Lands, edited by David O’Connor and Stephen Quirke, 183 – 202. Portland ...
A series of ancient walls were discovered in Mexico, leading researchers to believe they may have been used for navigation, officials said. ... essentially an ancient Mayan “Google Maps,” they ...
The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography , written c. 150 . Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria .
Discover some of the world’s most mysterious places on Earth, including the pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, and beyond, and learn why these ruins still puzzle experts.
Tucked in a mountainous region of southeastern Venezuela, newly discovered ancient rock art may be the work of a previously unknown group of people.. Strewn across isolated boulders within Canaima ...