![]() ![]() We have evidence that they were collected and studied in the great library of Alexandria and that compilations of them were made by the geographers who worked there.īefore the catastrophe of the destruction of the great library many of the maps must have been transferred to other centers, chiefly, perhaps, to Constantinople, which remained a center of learning through the Middle Ages. It appears that the charts must have originated with a people unknown that they were passed on, perhaps by the Minoans (the Sea Kings of ancient Crete) and the Phoenicians, who were for a thousand years and more the greatest sailors of the ancient world. In one field, ancient sea charts, it appears that accurate information has been passed down from people to people. ![]() This book contains the story of the discovery of the first hard evidence that advanced peoples preceded all the peoples now known to history. Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice AgeĬhapter II The Secrets of the Piri Re’is Map ![]()
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