We are continuing to pursue the first people in our area from pre-historic time. The history is just now being written.

What do ancient maps have to do with Original Americans? Establishing dates.

Ancient maps, such as Re’is and Finaeus, are based on maps from prehistory. These ancient maps were found by the Director of Turkey’s National Museum in musty archives in 1929 and released to the Congress of Orientalists through the work of two distinguished academics, historians, and theologians, Dr. Gustav Deissmann and Dr. Paul Kahle. Later, the U.S. Secretary of State requested the Turkish government to try to find base maps related to Columbus.

About 1954, a Turkish naval officer presented a copy of the Re’is map to the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, where cartographer M.I. Walters researched it. He then referred the map to his friend, U.S. Navy Captain A. H. Mallery, while he was searching records in the Library of Congress. Captain Mallery had a distinguished career as an engineer, navigator, archaeologist, and author.

Mallery enlisted the assistance of the Reverend D. L. Linehan, S.J., Director of Boston College Weston Observatory and the Reverend Francis Heyden, S.J., Director of Georgetown University Observatory. Subsequently, History of Science Professor C.H. Hapgood rigorously researched Mallery’s work. Hapgood asked the U.S. Air Force Reconnaissance cartographers to research. They spent over two years on the maps.

The map revelations are not the work of some alien theorist, but the research and analysis of experienced, authentic professionals in their respective fields. Some of the outgrowth of the map research is astonishing.

• The maps derive from base maps about 6,000 years old.
• The Antarctic was not completely ice covered.
• The Arctic lands were not completely ice covered.
• The Americas were coming out of an ice age.
• Sea levels were considerably lower.
• A huge land strip bridged Asia and Alaska.
• As the climate transitioned, much of the land mass underwent massive flooding.
• The maps show intriguing detail and accuracy.
• The trigonometry and geometry used on the map projections existed with Sumerians and subsequent cultures for thousands of years prior to the Greek development of modern versions of the mathematics.
• Circumference of the Earth appears within 2%.
• Global trade and travel apparently used the maps.
• The Egyptian-Hebrew history of the world was initially recorded circa 1450 BCE by an Egyptian noble of Hebrew birth, with access to the entire Egyptian libraries. The history is available in every known language.
• That history continues to be precisely validated by NASA over the past twenty years and is documented in Dad Where Did We Come From?
• Map accuracy, understanding of mathematics, travel, and culture rapidly deteriorated circa 1200 BCE, when the last descendant of the long-lived genes vanished and expanding society became predominantly land-based.
• History recognizes the transition with the dissolution of the ziggurat dwelling Poverty Point Culture of Original Americans and the Mediterranean conflict of the Sea People.
• Portolan maps from about 1300 CE derived from the ancient base maps were accurate within 20 miles over a two-thousand-mile scale or an error of 1%, less than the size of a mark.
• Portolan maps relied on dead reckoning and a compass, just like early aviation up to fifty years ago.

* The maps had rhumb lines from a circular pattern of wind or compass roses, which allowed corrections at each rose.

• Columbus had reasonable maps of the Americas.

All maps are based on a projection of a 3-D spherical globe on a 2-D surface using some reference location. Most modern maps use the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, London, England, for reference to the Prime Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time.

In deciphering ancient maps, locating the projection type and the reference center is critical. History and location of the dominant culture obviously plays a part. Deciphering the Re’is map pointed to Syene, Egypt, along the Nile River. However, the map reference would be expected on a prime coordinate like the nearby Tropic of Cancer.

In a 1961 map analysis, Hapgood found the locations did not quite mesh. What does that indicate?

Astronomers affirm, because of Earth’s wobble, the Tropic of Cancer drifts southward 40 seconds of latitude in a century (15 meters/year). Using the present location of Syene (now Aswan), then calculating when it would have been on the Tropic of Cancer gives a good indication of the era of the map.

The locations merge about 5780 years ago. Where have we seen that number?

The Jewish calendar dates the present year as 5782 A.M., Anno Mundi, the years since the world began recording history. Coincidence? Not likely. On our Western Gregorian calendars, that period is 3760 BCE.

Connect this back to our Original Americans. Watson Brake, on the Ouachita River, LA, is the oldest recorded earthwork mound (ziggurat) complex in North America. As we have seen, its settlement by sea-farers came about 3500 BCE with a smaller contingent of people there for about 500 years before the complex. The date determination is by Carbon-14, sand grains, and organic acids.

Story-tellers attribute the dramatic development of early humans to aliens. Others attribute ancient history as myths. Actual history is more dramatic than such imagination. Not understanding history does not keep it from being true.

Think about: How much evidence do we have for multiple cataclysmic world events near 4000 BCE? Does it appear that the Original Americans were global travelers of that era? What major climatic and environmental changes have happened during human occupation, without input from humans? What does this reality do to historical, religious, and political education?