Sunday, May 24, 2009

MFS - Strange But True - Things / Other 3

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The Piri Reis map is a famous pre-modern world map compiled in 1513 from military intelligence by the Ottoman-Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis.
The map has been used in pseudo-scholarship to claim an ancient knowledge of an ice-free Antarctica.
Read more about this map on MFS.

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