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Cartography
Cartography is the science of map-making.
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The evidence presented by the ancient maps appears to suggest the existence in remote times, before the rise of any of the known cultures, of a true civilization, of a comparatively advanced sort, which either was localized in one area but had worldwide commerce, or was, in a real sense, a worldwide culture. This culture, at least in some respects, may well have been more advanced than the civilizations of Egypt, Babylonia, Greece, and Rome. In astronomy, nautical science, mapmaking and possibly
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― Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
― Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
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The most important evidence for the age of the maps [...] is to be found in those showing the Antarctic, especially in the maps of Mercator, Piri Re'is, and Oronteus Finaeus. All of these maps appear to show the continent at a time when there was a temperate climate there. Some geological evidence, in the form of three sedimentary cores from the bottom of the Ross Sea, has been presented to suggest that such a warm period may indeed have existed there down to about 6,000 years ago.
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― Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
― Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
