Re: Interesting archeological discovery - mysterious 1513 Piri Reis Map

From: I.E_Johansson (inger_e.xjohansson_at_telia.xcom)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:22:09 GMT

"University Studies" <gov-statistics@no.spam> skrev i meddelandet
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> > > > > Graham Han*** points out something very intriguing regarding the
> > > > mysterious
> > > > > Piri Reis Map of 1513. (This may be one of the maps that the
Swedish
> > > > > researcher Inger was referring to earlier).
> > > >
> > > > No. I have refered to a seachart from 1424(!) one from late 15th
> century
> > > and
> > > > to maps from 1510 to 1544. One which btw confirm that the route from
> > > Hudson
> > > > Bay to Lake Nippigon was known in early 16th century. But of course
no
> > one
> > > > among the naysayers took themselves time to look closer at urls I
> sent.
> > > Why
> > > > am I surprised that they rather pick on what they believe(d) to be
> > grammar
> > > > or spelling faults?
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, forget about the grammar problems and naysayers. Ignore them.
> > >
> > > Please continue with the intriguing maps you mention. Might they show
a
> > > trade route between the Americas and Europe?
> >
> > Confirmed trade from mid 1500's to 1640 from Dania Nova in Hudson Bay's
> > western parts. OBS Dania Nova noted in papers before Munk even grown
> up....
> > thus it's not 'his' dead sailors he and the other 3-4 left behind who
> traded
> > with Denmark.
> > There are documentation for furtrade via Greenland long before that.
> That's
> > is in my manuscript and details will also be published in my
> article-serie,
> > probably second article later this year.
> > >
> > > Are some of those maps you mention drawn from even earlier maps? (as
> > Graham
> > > Han*** remarks about the 1514 map)
> > > http://www.bcvideo.com/clips/Piri.Reis.rm
> > >
> >
> > The seachart's is.
> > The map Nicholas of Thingeyre(I know some will argue the later name but
I
> > have him documented in Bergen and in Rome this way so don't even try)
draw
> > between 1121 and 1124 and which he left a copy of to the Norwegian King
> and
> > one to the Pope while Nicholas was on his way to the Holy Land.
> > there is also a relatively unknown Danish map which I will not discuss
> here
> > at all.
> >
> > Inger E
>
> You are right Inger. If you may have stumbled upon something of possibly
> great value, it's good to keep it to yourself until you're ready to
publish
> it.
>
> A few years ago, I came upon what seems like a very large underground tomb
> while I was studying Landsat 7 satellite images over a period of months.
> Because there has never been any excavation in the area, nor even a
> mentioning in any archeological journal or website about this area, I'm
> keeping it to myself until I'm ready to publish and profit from it. :)

The worst isn't that I stumbled on it. The worst is that it was one of
England's best archaeologist who in the 30's stumbled on one of the maps,
wrote a line about it and no one tried to follow up his hints where to find
one of the two copies ....... :-)

Inger E
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