Buache Map: Ancient Knowledge of Antarctica?
The Buache Map: Evidence of Ancient Knowledge of Antarctica? Among the most intriguing enigmas of historical cartography is the Buache Map, an 18th-century chart that has sparked debates about whether ancient civilizations possessed advanced geographical knowledge long before the modern era. Some researchers claim that the map accurately depicts Antarctica before it was buried by […]
The Piri Reis Map Sources
The Piri Reis Map Sources: Tracing the Origins of a Cartographic Mystery On October 9, 1929, while cataloging non-Arabic manuscripts for the Turkish Ministry of Education, Gustav A. Deissmann stumbled upon a bundle of forgotten maps in Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace. Among them was a fragment of a 1513 world map created by Hacı Ahmed Muhiddin […]
The Piri Reis Map Mysteries
The Piri Reis Mysteries: Map of Lost Knowledge? The Piri Reis Map, drawn in 1513 by Ottoman admiral and cartographer Ahmet Muhiddin Piri (Piri Reis), is one of history’s most intriguing cartographic relics. What survives today is only a fragment of a much larger map that originally depicted the known world. The existing portion shows […]
