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Cartography
Cartography is the science of map-making.
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Traditions, with all their folksy redolences, are relatively safe matters for scholars to speculate about. Maps and nautical charts on the other hand -- especially accurate, sophisticated maps of the kind used by Guzarate to chart Vasco da Gama's course from Malindi to Calicut in 1498 -- are quite another matter. If maps have indeed come down to us containing recognizable representations of Ice Age topography -- as arguably may be the case with the depictions of India and of the long-submerged S
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― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
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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
