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Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
There have been major finds all over the UK that pretty much put the mainstream text-book history/science that we are taught in school into the hoax category, and they certainly blow the biblical theory that the earth is 5,000 years old out of contention.
Originally posted by Hanslune
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
Sounds like you went to a Catholic school. The curriculum updates usually in 1 1/2 to 5 years depending on the wealth of the school district and the country.
The Vikings being in the Americas started to show up in books in mid to late 60's. Now days it's much faster.
Originally posted by Hanslune
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
Sounds like you went to a Catholic school. The curriculum updates usually in 1 1/2 to 5 years depending on the wealth of the school district and the country.
The Vikings being in the Americas started to show up in books in mid to late 60's. Now days it's much faster.
Originally posted by LastStarfighter
Do you think its possible that humans used these craft to reach the new world? Before colombo?
I just saw the guy above me talks about the same thing. I think its becoming clear in the last ten years that there were people from europe here before colombo
edit on 15-5-2013 by LastStarfighter because: (no reason given)
Don't Americans still teach their children that Columbus found "America"?
Originally posted by Granite
So Columbus had maps already showing the New World east coast.
Two maps of about 1490 are believed to have been associated with Columbus. The Paris map, an anonymous manuscript chart on vellum in the Bibliotheque Nationale, shows the coasts of the Atlantic from Norway to the mouth of the Congo. In the neck of the vellum is drawn a small circular mappa muadi surrounded by nine spheres on the moon and planets. On this mappa mundi Africa is depicted to the Cape of Good Hope and eastern Asia. follows Ptolemy. Inscriptions on the map derive mainly from D'Ailly's Imago Mundi and duplicate Columbus' annotations in his own copy. Charles de la Ronciere in 1924 identified the map as by Columbus. Of the various theories put forward today, David Quinn's suggestion that the map was made by Bartolome Colon in association with his visit to England in 1488-89, is the most convincing.
The second map is a large world map c. 1490 by Henricus Martellus, a German cartographer working in Italy in association with the Florentine mapengraver and publisher Francesco Rosselli. The map is marked with degrees of latitude and longitude. Although Martellus follows Ptolemy in many features, he corrects him in depicting Portuguese discoveries round Africa and in opening up the closed Indian Ocean. He extends Asia to include China and marks Cipango 20 degrees to the east of China.
The discovery in 1961 of the Martellus map, now in Yale University Library, has solved a puzzle which confounded experts. There is the striking resemblance between the conceptions of Toscanelli and Columbus and the depictions on the globe made by Martin Behaim at Nuremberg in 1492, the earliest extant terrestrial globe. Yet we have no evidence that Columbus and Behaim were collaborators or acquainted. To explain the similarity, authorities such as George E. Nunn conjectured that Columbus and Behaim drew on a common map source. Roberto Almagia speculated that the prototype map was one by Henricus Martellus. The Yale map fits Almagia's concept of the missing map. It appears that Columbus had seen this map, or one very like it, and that Behaim used a copy as one of his main sources.
Originally posted by Granite
reply to post by Hanslune
The key is the hooked X signatures and runes among the remaining Knights Templars.
If you are related to the inquisition, you not going to get anymore info from me...