Ancient Charts Part I

The difficult part of medieval navigation was establishing Longitude. It required measuring time with great accuracy. Time pieces that were accurate enough to provide accurate time didn't arrive until the eighteenth century. There wasn't anyone in this time period that could have produced such accurate charts as these. Dr. Norgenskold analyzed hundreds of these portolans in the late 1800 and in 1890 declared that all of these were copies of just one chart!

In the 1950’s Professor Charles Hapgood reviewed Dr. Nordenskold work from the 1890's and stated he would review the work if the United States Air Force Strategic Air

Command (SAC) the(8th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron) would confirm his work. Dr. Hapgood confirmed that all the copies came from one source

There have been found two amazing maps that lead scholars to believe that the Templar’s had accurate charts of just not the Mediterranean but also of the Americas, Africa, the Caribbean and middle America. In 1860 the Hadji Ahmed map was discovered in Lebanon. In 1929 the Piri Re'is map was discovered in the old Imperial Palace in Constantinople.

In 1559 in Damascus a Geographer, by the name of Hadji Ahmed, drew a chart which is based more on art than science. It depicts the entire world that is typical of Arab chart work of the mid sixteenth century.

The depictions of the Mediterranean and Africa were distorted because they tried to improve the chart based on local accounts from sailor’s instead of keeping the chart in its original state.

However the Americas were amazingly accurate and are quite comparable to Mercator Projections drawn years later. Since he hadn’t any local informational to corrupt the Americas with he was left to copy from the Wraparound Charts which were very accurate.

This chart shows Baja California, which had not yet been discovered, it shows the northwest coast of North America including Alaska. It shows the Hawaiian Islands which weren't discovered for another two hundred years. It shows the Islands of

the South Pacific which had not been discovered yet which is not to say they haven’t been settled yet. It clearly shows Antarctica and the Palmer Peninsula which also hadn't been

discovered yet. The far east is distorted but reasonably accurate. A very interesting aspect of this chart is in between Alaska and Asia there isn't a Bearing Strait, the whole area is a landmass!

This chart depicts how the earth actually was ten thousand years ago. This chart shows the Bearing Land Bridge between Asia and North America. This is how the Eskimos and several other Native American peoples arrived in North America. This chart also confirmed the theory of scientists from the 1950’s that the Bearing Strait wasn't a land bridge but a whole subterranean continent.

These charts are from a time when the sea level was 300 feet lower than it is today. It is from a time when the continental shelf off of southern California was above sea level. When Newfoundland and Nova Scotia were joined by a land mass. When Georges Bank and the Grand Banks were joined together and above sea level which was confirmed when a Georges Bank trawler found human remains in his nets which were carbon dated to ten thousand years ago.

The Piri Ri’is Chart is from 1519, the year that Magellan’s expedition set out to circumnavigate the world, and returned in 1521 so any information gained from this expedition wouldn't have been available for the production of the Piri Ri’is chart.

Piri Re’is made notation on the margins of the chart which indicated that Columbus’s charts were used as reference as were charts from Alexander the Great!

Piri Re’is was a Turkish Admiral ,although he was of the Constantinople Palace he was Jewish. This chart caused great debate because it showed the continents of the America’s in great detail. By 1519 the European explorers were still in the Caribbean and their knowledge of the America’s was at best limited.

 Professor Hapgood states in his book “Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings” and this statement is confirmed by the US Air force. That the Piri Re’is chart could only been produced by

Aerial Photography….PERIOD.