The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. …

2018年5月9日 · The Piri Reis map was created in 1513, 260 years before James Cook discovered Antarctica. So why was it on this world map?

2016年7月25日 · What Is the Piri Reis Map? Compiled in 1513, the Piri Reis map is one of the oldest post-Columbian world maps in existence. Drawn on gazelle skin by an Ottoman Turkish …

On October 9, 1929, a German theologian named Gustav Adolf Deissmann was cataloguing items in the Topkapi Palace library in Istanbul when he happened across a curious parchment …

2022年11月21日 · One of the most beautiful maps to survive the Great Age of Discoveries, the 1513 world map drawn by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis is also one of the most mysterious. …

2018年1月2日 · While cataloging antique items he found a gazelle-skin parchment in a stack of discarded items. This parchment had a map drawn on it, and Deissmann was amazed to see …

2022年4月3日 · On Oct. 29, 1929, researchers looking through old, disregarded documents at the Library of Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey unexpectedly stumbled across one of the most …

2024年11月25日 · The Piri Reis map, made in 1513 AD, is known for its accurate coastlines. It shows the eastern coast of South America and parts of Africa with great detail. The Brazilian …

2023年8月21日 · The spectacular 1513 Piri Reis world map, next in our series of ancient maps, dates to the European ‘Great Age of Discovery’. It is one of the best-known early maps to …

The Piri Reis Map exhibits many features in common with other surviving portolan charts and portolan-style maps of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and fits well into the evolution of …