Today we only have a fragment of the original map. This man was an Admiral in the Turkish navy. There is a map, dating from 1513, which was made by a man named Piri Ibn Haji Memmed, otherwise known as Piri Re’is. The following maps are very much ancient enigmas because they simply do not fit in our current model of history. “Only since the late 1700’s has it been possible to collect & record truly accurate geographic information” In the early 1300’s navigators developed maps of the Mediterranean and other known coastlines.įinally in modern times we have perfected the art of map making and navigation. The Mayans and Incas made maps of the territories they conquered. There are maps made on silk from China around the 2nd century BC. These maps were of land lots and were used to control taxation. The earliest maps that we know of were made on clay tablets and come from the ancient Babylonians around 2300 BC.
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