In 1929, at the Serai Library in Istanbul, Turkey, a nautical map drawn on parchment was discovered, which of course was not the original, but an exquisite reproduction. The map has the signature of the Turkish Admiral Piri Rice and is dated 1513 AD. According to the investigation, Rice does have someone, he is the nephew of the famous pirate Mar Rice. A person who has lived by the sea all his life has nothing to do with a nautical chart, but his chart is different. This map accurately draws the outlines of both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the geographic locations of North and South America are also accurate, especially the Amazon River Basin in South America and Cape Horn in the Gulf of Venezuela are also marked very accurately. What is even more amazing is that this map actually clearly draws the outline of entire Antarctica, and also draws the coastline and Antarctica on both sides of the Antarctic continent, which is now covered by several kilometers of ice. Mountains, especially in the Quimorand region.

Antarctica is now recognized as being discovered in 1818, more than 300 years after Rice's map and the Antarctic continent was covered by ice more than 15,000 years ago. This map shows that before the Antarctic continent was covered by ice and snow, someone had drawn the geographical appearance at that time. However, humans were still in the primitive stone age 15,000 years ago. At that time, it was impossible to reach the Antarctic region surrounded by sea, and there was no advanced culture for drawing maps. So who is the original author of this map?

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In 1531, Oroncius Vernaeus also had an ancient map, and the size and shape of Antarctica marked on it were the same as those drawn by modern people. This map shows that the western part of the Antarctic continent has been covered by ice and snow, while the eastern part still has landed. According to geophysicists, about 6,000 years ago, eastern Antarctica was relatively warm, which matches the situation reflected in Fernaius' map.

Another map of Turkey in 1559 also accurately depicts the Pacific coastline of the Antarctic continent and North America, and surprisingly, there is a narrow strip on this map that connects Siberia and Alaska like a bridge, which is undoubtedly the current Bering Strait area on the map. However, the Bering Strait has been formed for over 10,000 years, and this area between Siberia and Alaska disappeared under the blue waters then. For some reason, the author of this map knows the topography of the earth more than 10,000 years ago, which is incredible.

Another strange thing happened on some maps of ancient Greece from the time of the Ptolemies. From this map, people can see that the whole of Sweden is still buried under a thick layer of ice, and the age of this geological change has been very far away.

Are these maps correct? It has been debated for a long time. In 1952, the U.S. Navy used advanced echo-sounding technology to discover the mountains covered by Antarctic ice, which were the same as Piri Rice's map. This is no less than the explosion of a giant bomb on the top of the scientist's head, and a series of questions arose in addition to the shock: who drew such an accurate map more than 10,000 years ago joke?