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The Oldest "Map of America" Is Mysteriously Accurate
- bryanrasmussen 2y agooriginal title: The Oldest "Map Of America" Is Mysteriously Accurate & Experts Still Can't Explain Its Precision
- barbazoo 2y ago> Piri Reis didn't just make this map from his own observations. Among his source materials was allegedly a map drawn by Christopher Columbus himself (yes, the guy who discovered the Americas and altered history in the process). The guy that "discovered" land already inhabited for thousands of years.
- do_not_redeem 2y agoI discovered a great sushi place last week, but I wasn't the first person there either.
- barbazoo 2y agoAnd that's why thetravel.com won't write an article about you but for some reason for Columbus they did. Actually, they didn't because the link goes to a page that doesn't even mention Columbus (https://www.thetravel.com/discoveries-that-altered-history/ https://www.thetravel.com/discoveries-that-altered-history/)
- duskwuff 2y agoThis feels like blogspam. Is there a better source for this?
- settsu 2y agoThe design of the page is really poor and I find it highly distracting, approaching anxiety-inducing. Even in reader mode the structure is not good.
- alsetmusic 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map
- 5555624 2y agoFor something a bit more cut and dried, there's a Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map
- dankle 2y ago[flagged]
- dbs 2y agoThis makes for an alternative take - in Portuguese https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2023-07-29-A-explicacao-completa-do-mapa-de-Piri-Reis-o-documento-mal-interpretado-ffadaed5 https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2023-07-29-A-explicacao-completa...