Hadji Ahmed Map

Written By Mister Gu on Saturday, March 26, 2011 | 12:57 AM

It is dated 1559 and it shows the entire world in a somewhat fanciful type of projection that is more art than science and which was typical of Arab chartwork of the time. More amazingly, it shows a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. There are some “extra” islands that do not presently exist, but these islands did exist ten thousand years ago, near the end of the Ice Age when the sea
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