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A map was discovered in the 1920s which belonged to Piri Reis, a Turk from the 16th Century. The map depicts the coasts of South America, Africa, and Antarctica. But here's the kicker:
The most puzzling however is not so much how Piri Reis managed to draw such an accurate map of the Antarctic region 300 years before it was discovered, but that the map shows the coastline under the ice. Geological evidence confirms that the latest date Queen Maud Land could have been charted in an ice-free state is 4000 BC.
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_1.htmThe article where I got this from goes into how Piri Reis based his map off earlier maps. But somewhere along the line, some civilization would have had to chart the Antarctic coastline, presumably prior to ice formations. Who could have done it? An advanced ancient civilization or extra terrestrial intelligence? Good question!
The Greeks always spoke of the lost civilization of Atlantis. Then again, the great fire of Alexandria might not have destroyed everything. The truth will be stranger than the fiction we could imagine.
It makes wonder if all this wineing over the ice shelfs breaking off isnt another clue to the 'natural' occurence of global warming. It has been shown that Antarctica was tropical in the past, thus a real geographical coastline to map.
Could there have been an ancient civilization that pre-dated all known civs that lived in Antarctica? If their remains are under ice, we wouldn't really know about them, would we? Could they have left for areas in the Mediterranean or perhaps South America once it got too cold down at the Pole? Could they have contributed knowledge to the building of Incan roads or Greek structures? If nothing else, it would make for an interesting storyline.
