Antarctica: Fingerprints of a Lost Civilization

Ready to have your mind expanded and reality disbanded as Bernie Taylor joins us for a fall special. How could Antarctica be present on maps drawn in the 1500s, such as the Contarini–Rosselli Map of 1506 or the Ottoman–Piri Reis Map of 1513, when nobody knew it existed? We explore the origins of this theoretical land, beginning with Claudius Ptolemy’s concept of Circulus antarcticus around 150 CE, which postulated the existence of a southern continent as part of a Greek theory of the globe. We’ll investigate the possibility that these maps contain the fingerprints of a lost civilization that mapped the entire world.
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