Piri Reis Map Atlantis

Piri Reis Map Atlantis. The Topkapı Palace where the map was discovered, viewed from the Bosporus Others hypothesized the possible involvement of a civilization based around the Lost City of Atlantis

The Topkapı Palace where the map was discovered, viewed from the Bosporus The Piri Reis Map (1513) (c) was a world map drawn on a gazelle skin of which only the left-hand side still exists

The Legendary Piri Reis Map Explained

[7] He sailed with his uncle Kemal Reis [8] as a Barbary pirate until Kemal Reis received an official position in the Ottoman Navy in 1495 [7] He sailed with his uncle Kemal Reis [8] as a Barbary pirate until Kemal Reis received an official position in the Ottoman Navy in 1495 Piri Reis map is a world map created by Ottoman-Turkish cartographer Ahmed Muhiddin Piri in 1513

. The map has garnered attention because it appears to show an ice-free Antarctic coastline. Most intriguingly, it also includes a representation of Antarctica, centuries before its official discovery in 1820.

. He and a team of students at the University of New Hampshire studied the map and found many anomalies, such as the use of mercatorial projection and the inclusion of a pre-ice Antarctica. It was a composite of detail gleaned from a large collection of maps, including one allegedly captured from Christopher Columbus (i), that were collected by Piri Ibn Haji Mehmed (1465/70-1553), an admiral or 'reis' in the Ottoman navy and noted by Rand Flem-Ath as a former.