Posted on 11/12/2002 8:21:38 AM PST by blam
How so?
According to Graham Hancock, there were 3 distinct massive floods during the end of the Ice Age. Any one of them destroyed coastal cities worldwide, so it might be that Atlantis was only one of the countless flood stories. These floods are pretty well dated, although I don't have his book handy to tell you the dates right now.
How so?
Graham Hancock's book, FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS, opens Chapter One-"A Map Of Hidden Places"-with a letter from the 8th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron (Strategic Air Command), United States Airforce, Westover Airforce Base, Massachusetts, dated 6 July 1960 to one Professor Charles H. Hapgood at Keene College, New Hampshire, responding to a request from said professor to evaluate certain sections of the genuine 1513 [Turkish Admiral] Piri Reis World Map.
Quoting Harold Z. Olmeyer, Lt. Colonel, USAF Commander, in part..."The claim that the lower part of the Map portrays the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maude Land Antartica, and the Palmer Penninsula, is reasonable. We find this is the most logical, and in all probability the correct interpretation of the map.
"The geographical detail...agrees very remarkably with the results of the seismic proflile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antartic Expedition of 1949.
"This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap." [italics in the original]
After noting that the Ice-cap is now about one mile thick, the Commander concludes:
"We have no idea how the data on this map can be reconciled with the supposed state of geographical knowledge in 1513." [emphasis added]
Anybody remember the report of Columbus actually making his journey a few years earlier than his trip from Spain? A pope had sent him out and even had an inscription on his sarcophagus that he had sponcered the discovery. Also an Arab map c.1488 showed the western hemisphere and mentioned a new world discovered by the indfidel from Genoa, a reference to the earlier voyage. Apparently that Pope died and a Spaniard one took over and steered Columbus to his King and Queen who sent him out again this time in their name. This move wasn't a petty thing for personal glory rather it had to do with legal claim for the plunder which went to Spain and not the church or Italy. I'll try and find that article.
I also think there was a report of Inuits visiting Scotland before Columbus's trip.
Not very smart, are they?
You've got me thinking....
The Chinese can look forward to a population "implosion." At a certain point they won't have enough fellow countrymen to sell their products to. Since they are the world's biggest market they can expect a stagnant economy.
I'll bet they encourage in vitro fertilization and artificial placentas when they figure out what they have done to themselves.
Some of the later European maps on show in parliament illustrate dragons, snakes and one-eyed monsters in the inland regions.One of the earliest known depictions of leftists.
-Eric
The United States Chair Force is baffled by many simple things. They are hardly an indicator of intellectual controversy.
Graham Hancock's book, FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS,
PAGING ART BELL
Your silly tin-foilish claims are debunked here.
Military maps are the basis for the USGS quad maps. Piri Re'is, as Admiral, would have also had the best possible maps. Those maps would have been based on older maps; you realize that such a finished map as the Piri Re'is map would have been drawn and colored by hand at a drafting table by cartographic artists over an extended period of work, and most importantly, from source materials.
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"The sea-coast beyond the Lotophagi is occupied by the Machlyans, who use the lotus to some extent, though not so much as the people of whom we last spoke. The Machlyans reach as far as the great river called the Triton, which empties itself into the great lake Tritonis. Here, in this lake, is an island called Phla, which it is said the Lacedaemonians were to have colonised, according to an oracle."Located in Libya, by Herodotus' time it had begun to dry out, having peaked (and perhaps formed) during the wetter period many thousands of years earlier. Needless to say, the lake has since vanished. It was in what is now the Sahara (not the entire desert, just part of it).
Interesting, thanks.
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