Piri Reis map, an ancient mistery

In 1929, cleaning workers in Topkapi Palace, the harem of the last Turkish sultan, accidentally discovered a broken, dust-covered map.

At first glance, it represents the coasts of Africa, Spain and South America. On closer examination, the researchers concluded that navigators from an unknown civilization had discovered Antarctica thousands of years earlier and mapped the continent.

The map was made in 1513 on gazelle skin, by a Turkish admiral, a former pirate named Piri Reis. The traces of the map were lost for 400 years, its discovery making a sensation at that time. Historians and cartographers alike first became interested in the inscription that showed that it had been drawn from the sketches of Christopher Columbus.

It was said that a Genoese unbeliever named Christopher Columbus discovered those lands. The researchers assumed that the map was related to the famous lost map of Columbus, which represented the Antilles.

The US and Turkish governments have tried in vain to find the document. The search soon ceased, although many mysteries surrounding the map had not been solved. It is not known how the longitudes of Africa and South America were determined with such a small margin of error 200 years before the invention of the stopwatch.

In 1956, Arlington Mallery, a specialist in ancient maps and known for claiming that the Vikings had discovered America before Columbus, examined a copy of the map.

He said what at first appeared to be the extremity of South America actually represented the bays and islands off the coast of Antarctica. It is a generally accepted fact that the discovery of the South Pole dates back to 1820. Or, if Mallery was right, someone knew of the continent's existence as early as the sixteenth century, if not earlier.

Some clues tend to place the sources on which Piri Reis relied in a very distant time. Geologists believe that Antarctica has disappeared under the ice for two million years. The map seems to indicate the altitude of some mountains that have long disappeared under the ice.

Underwater pyramids discovered in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores islands

In 2013, a colossal underwater pyramid was discovered near the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. The pyramid measures 60 m high and its base has an area of 8,000 square meters. The pyramid was discovered by an amateur sailor, Diocletian Silva While he was fishing on his yacht in the Atlantic Ocean, between the island of Sao Miguel and the island of Terceira, a strange signal was intercepted by his radar and so he made the epochal discovery. Diocletian Silva considers his discovery to be a vestige of Atlantis. He also says that the pyramid is identical to those in Egypt, having a perfectly regular shape and oriented towards the cardinal points. After the discovery, the Portuguese Hydrographic Institute of the Navy tried to determine if the pyramid was made by man or is the product of natural phenomena. In October 2015, divers sent to explore the area detected two other pyramids much larger than the previous one, these having a height of 120 m in height and a base of 20,000 square meters.

New informations about the Dead Sea Scrolls

The famous Dead Sea Scrolls continue to generate riddles, decades after their discovery. A recent study concluded that at least one different technique was used to obtain one of them than the rest, an unknown technique, unheard of to this day. The parchment that attracted the attention of researchers, one of the most important in the collection, is one with an age of almost 2.000 years, which has been remarkably well preserved, despite the conditions in which it was kept and despite its size. of the largest. Found by the Bedouins in 1956, north of the Dead Sea, it was sold to an antique dealer. He did not keep it in the best conditions, but still wrapped it in cellophane and stored it in a shoe box, hidden under the floor, according to Science Alert. The "Temple Parchment", as he is known, has survived, but is currently the thinnest of the parchments (a collection of about 900 pieces). It is only one tenth of a millimeter thick. However, it was preserved, and the material

Tomb of the Red Queen, Mexico

In 1994, archaeologists discovered a mortuary in Palenque (a Mayan city). They found here a coffin with the remains of a woman, covered in red dust. Several collections of pearls were also found inside, and a diadem had been placed around the skull. Pieces of what had once been a funeral mask were also found at the scene. According to researchers, the Red Queen was around 60 at the time of her death. This was an interesting finding, as power was usually inherited only by men. As far as was known until the date of this discovery, women were not honored to such an extent that they were buried with treasures such as those found in the Red Queen's coffin. Who was this woman and how much power was concentrated in her hands? It is unknown at this time ...

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