Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, by Charles H. Hapgood, Turnstone Books, London, 1966.
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, revealed the 1513 Piri Re'is map exhibited a knowledge of the ice-free parts of Antarctica.
Longitudes for 24 sites are accurate within one half a degree of the true positions.
This standard accuracy could not be matched until 1735 when John Harrison invented the marine chronometer.
Mid-1960's Hapgood and students at Keene State College began to study a series of ancient maps of the globe.
Hapgood was convinced an advanced, worldwide maritime culture existed before Antarctica was covered by ice more than ten thousand years ago could have created these maps.
Hapgood and students found that the original center of the Piri Re'is map lay close to the ancient Egyptian city of Syene on the Nile.'
It was from Syene that Eratosthenes, Alexandria's librarian, calculated the circumference of the Earth.
Studying the ancient sea charts for ten years Hapgood concluded, Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age.
Advanced peoples preceded all the peoples known to history. The Ancient sea charts contain very accurate information. Ancient peoples explored the coasts of Antarctica before the ice.
These maps were collected and studied in the great library of Alexandria. Compilations of them were made by the geographers who worked there.
Before the catastrophe of the destruction of the great library many of the maps were transferred to other centers, perhaps, to Constantinople, which remained a center of learning in the Middle Ages.
Longitudes 'accurate within one half a degree
of the true positions', Antarctica was mapped with a precision not discovered until the second half of the eighteenth century.
The coastline of Antarctica is shown as it exists under the ice that now covers it.
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, revealed a treasury of ancient maps in the Library of Congress, many of which show an amazing knowledge of
the Earth's true geography at a time when most people did not know that the world was round and when cartographers would fill in blank spaces
on maps with drawings of winged cherubs, monsters, or with "here be Dragons."
The Piri Reis Map and the Earth Grid
"The US Navy analyzed the Piri Reis map and determined that it is a correct circular grid projection from Cairo. The half diamond (outlined by grid points 37, 19, 20 and 38) contains the complete construction of the original map, showing a superficial resemblance to two Basic Triangles of the UVG system.
