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In this episode, we journey back to 1513 to unravel one of cartography’s most mysterious artifacts — the Piri Reis Map. Discovered on a tattered piece of gazelle-skin parchment, this early 16th-century world map has baffled historians, geographers, and conspiracy theorists alike. How did an Ottoman admiral chart parts of South America — and possibly even Antarctica — centuries before modern discovery?
By SNIn this episode, we journey back to 1513 to unravel one of cartography’s most mysterious artifacts — the Piri Reis Map. Discovered on a tattered piece of gazelle-skin parchment, this early 16th-century world map has baffled historians, geographers, and conspiracy theorists alike. How did an Ottoman admiral chart parts of South America — and possibly even Antarctica — centuries before modern discovery?