Piri Reis Map Atlantis

Piri Reis Map Atlantis. The Piri Reis Map, measuring approximately 90 x 65 cm, is drawn on gazelle skin and shows parts of the coasts of Africa, Europe and South America with surprising accuracy Much of Piri Reis's biography is known only from his cartographic works, including his two world maps and the Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Maritime Matters) [6] completed in 1521

The Piri Reis Map of 1513 is the first surviving map that shows the Americas (the Vinland map may be older but only shows a part of North America). New discoveries of ancient Tartessos in Spain linked to Atlantis July 9, 2024 Is.

The Piri Reis Map, measuring approximately 90 x 65 cm, is drawn on gazelle skin and shows parts of the coasts of Africa, Europe and South America with surprising accuracy The Topkapı Palace where the map was discovered, viewed from the Bosporus [7] He sailed with his uncle Kemal Reis [8] as a Barbary pirate until Kemal Reis received an official position in the Ottoman Navy in 1495

. The Piri Reis Map of 1513 is the first surviving map that shows the Americas (the Vinland map may be older but only shows a part of North America). Piri Re'is was an admiral of the Turkish navy and this map, showing the Atlantic Ocean, West Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and lands on the western side of the Ocean, seems to have been based on twenty different maps.

. He and a team of students at the University of New Hampshire studied the map and found many anomalies, such as the use of mercatorial projection and the inclusion of a pre-ice Antarctica. The Topkapı Palace where the map was discovered, viewed from the Bosporus