[Pharmboy]

I've looked around a bit about the Piri Reis Map and couldn't find anything about it being a forgery (although it may be). At any rate, I found this, which seems pretty thorough. Do you have another site that shows it to be a forgery?

[Tallguy]

Y'know I might just have to eat those words. I thought I remembered that the Piri Reis Map had failed a dating test a while back, but I can't find any evidence of this online -- and I have been looking since my hasty post. Still looking.

BTW, it seems to be the nature of anomolous artifacts that they get tied online to so many theories (and myths) that it's difficult to separate out the known facts.

[Tallguy]

I went through the analysis from UW-GB and it pretty much kills the most fantastic claim for the Piri Reis Map -- that it depicts the true Antarctic landmass without the ice. I guess that means there were no extra-terrestrials or seafaring civilizations between 4,000 and 9,000 BC.

Even so, the map is an amazing piece of work.