Who are we? Part 7
By: Seeker
The Ancients knew many more things than modern views of history give them credit for – there are mysterious ruins and monuments built using either means beyond what we allow them or involving moving multi-ton stone across many kilometers. There’s the way they carved and shaped stone for which they had no tools to use. And there’s anomalous knowledge, things they provably knew but which they couldn’t have known given how we think they lived.
We have maps dating from the 15th century, based on older knowledge, that incorporates mathematics only discovered a couple of centuries later, showing not just the Antarctic, (yet to be discovered) showing not only a fairly accurate rendition of the coastline, (considering it was a copy of an older map) but showing that coastline as it is without the ice! That has to qualify, according to what we think we know, as impossible.
As it turns out, that section of the Antarctic has more evidence to offer us from modern times. Core samples taken off the coastline show river sediments, (interestingly, just where the old maps show there were rivers) that give a time of around 7,000BCE when the rivers were flowing and carrying life sediments into the sea. The implication is that for a considerable period, at least that part of Antarctica was ice free.
But, and it’s a big but, that means someone in 7,000BCE was around with the skills to navigate the treacherous Southern Ocean and the society behind them capable of building vessels capable of surviving the trip PLUS having been around long enough to develop the various parts of knowledge needed to map accurately, to determine accurate latitude and longitude and, more significantly, the mathematics to transcribe global maps to a flat plane, as that is precisely what the 15th century maps show.
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