Mystery … at the Heart of History
The following letter is illustrative of the modern “we-cannot-explain-this” approach to facts around the world within universities and colleges, among scholarly professionals, including authors, historians, publishers, media moguls, teachers, government authorities, researchers, jurists and …theologians (!). The following MUST be explained. The problem is, it just doesn’t “fit” modern theories handed down to us generationally by these professional “Influencers”:
8 RECONNAISSANCE TECHNICAL SQUADRON (SAC) UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
Westover Air Force Base Massachusetts
6 July 1960
SUBJECT: Admiral Piri Reis World Map
To: Professor Charles H. Hapgood Keene College Keene, New Hampshire
Dear Professor Hapgood
Your request for evaluation of certain unusual features of the Piri Reis World Map of 1513 by this organization has been reviewed.
The claim that the lower part of the map portrays the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land Antarctica, and the Palmer peninsula, is reasonable. We find this is the most logical and, in all probability, the correct interpretation of the map. The geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map agrees very remarkably with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic expedition of 1949. This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice cap. The ice cap in this region is now about a mile thick. We have no idea how the data on this map can be reconciled with the supposed state of geographical knowledge in 1513.
HAROLD Z. OHLMEYER Lt. Colonel, USAF Commander
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The brilliant historian, Dr. Graham Hancock, wrote about the Piri Reis Map:
Despite the deadpan language, Ohlmeyer’s letter is a bombshell. If Queen Maud Land was mapped before it was covered by ice, the original cartography must have been done an extraordinarily long time ago.
How long ago exactly?
Conventional wisdom has it that the Antarctic ice cap, and its present extent and form, is millions of years old… The best recent evidence suggests that Queen Maud Land, and the neighboring region shown on the map, passed through a long ice free. Which may not have come completely to an end until about six thousand years ago. This evidence… liberates us from the burdensome task of explaining who (or what) have the technology to undertake an accurate geographical survey of Antarctica and, say, two million BC, long before our own species came into existence. By the same token, since map making is a complex and civilized activity, it compels us to explain how such a task could have been accomplished even six thousand years ago, well before the development of the first true civilizations recognized by historians.
Dr. Hancock continues to explain some remarkable facts about the Piri Reis Map of 1513 AD.
In attempting that explanation it is worth reminding ourselves of the basic historical and geological facts:
1.The Piri Reis Map, which is a genuine document, not a hoax of any kind, was made at Constantinople in AD 1513.
2. It focuses on the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America and the northern coast of Antarctica.
3. Piri Reis Could not have acquired this information on this latter region from contemporary explorers because Antarctica remained undiscovered until AD 1818, more than 300 years after he drew the map.
4. The ice free coasts of Queen Maud land shown in the map is a colossal puzzle because the geological evidence confirms that the latest data could have been surveyed and charted in an ice free condition is 4000 BC.
5. It is not possible to pinpoint the earliest date that such a task could have been accomplished… 6. There is no civilization known to history that had the capacity or need to survey that coastline in the relevant period: between 13,000 BC and 4000 BC.
Dr. Graham Hancock describes a theory produced by Professor Hapgood stating that this map, and many others…
… have themselves been based on even older sources, which in turn had been based on sources originating in the furthest antiquity. There was, he asserted, irrefutable evidence that the earth had been comprehensively mapped before 4000 BC by a hitherto unknown and undiscovered civilization which had achieved a high level of technological advancement.
Again, Dr. Hancock cites Professor Hapgood:
It appears that accurate information has been passed on from people to people. It appears that the charts must have originated with a people unknown and they were passed on, perhaps by the Minoans and the Phoenicians, who were, for 1000 years and more, the greatest sailors of the ancient world. We have evidence that they were collected and studied in the great library of Alexandria [Egypt] and that compilations of them were made by the geographers who worked there.
… Most of these maps were of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. But maps of other areas survived. These included maps of the Americas and maps of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans. It becomes clear that the ancient voyagers travelled from pole to pole. Unbelievable as it may appear, the evidence nevertheless indicates that some ancient people explored Antarctica when its coasts were free of ice. It is clear, 2, that they had an instrument of navigation for accurately determining longitudes that was far superior to anything possessed by the peoples of ancient, medieval or modern times until the 2nd after the 18th century.
This evidence of a lost technology will support and give credence to many of the other hypotheses that have been brought forward of a loss of civilization in remote times period scholars have been able to dismiss most of that evidence as mere myth, here we have evidence that cannot be dismissed. The evidence requires that all the other evidence that has been brought forward in the past should be reexamined with an open mind.
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