On Aug 1, 4:01?am, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:13:23 -0700, Chuck Gould

wrote:
What a hot topic for rec.boats, 2007.

A 15th Century Turkish navigator produced a map that accurately
depicted
not only the not-yet officially "discovered" Atlantic coastlines of
North and South America, but also the Antarctic continent in an ice-
free state that last existed about 6000 years ago. Piri Reis claimed
that some of the source material for his map came from the libraries
of Alexander the Great, dating those documents to a time about 1800
years before Columbus sailed to the West Indies.

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_1.htm

Oh good lord, not this again.

I think I'll just let this thread die - as quickly as possible.

Besides, the Vikings discovered everything anyway long before any
other groups - including Idaho.

You scoff at Piri Reis?

Has this somehow been shown to be fraudulent, or do you disbelieve
because it seems more comfortable to do so?

You're a student of history, Tom. You might enjoy a book I'm now
reading, "1491". Just in the last 30-40 years there have been some
amazing discoveries in anthropology and archeology that debunk a lot
of what we learned as kids in school. Some of these discoveries have
occurred as Amazon rain forests have been burned away, revealing
enormous areas of cultivated land, building sites in Peru (for
example) capable of housing populations many times larger than ever
officially thought to have existed there.

Knowledge isn't stagnant. The state of the art "knowledge" from just a
generation ago is almost obsolete today. Doesn't mean that every new
thing that comes along is true, of course, but we should consider the
possibility and examine things carefully because some of the new
things will indeed prove to be valid.