“Misinformation was used to keep away the curious: sailors were warned of sea monsters, swamps, darkness, and so on. Piri Re’is wrote on his map that when Columbus asked the ‘Great of Genoa’ to give him two ships, so he could sail to the West, he was told ‘O foolish man! In the West is only to be found the end and limit of the World! It is full of darkness.’… Even the tale of Atlantis suddenly disappearing may have been invented to help discourage the competition.” “The policy of misinformation and secrecy started so long ago is still very effective. School children are still taught that Columbus discovered America.” “We may never know who drew these maps of America.” “The navigators of Phoenicia and Carthage were famous for their exploits. The ancient Egyptians had the requisite mapping skills. Stecchini had ‘uncovered evidence of extremely advanced techniques of measurements and map-making in ancient Egypt. He had spent a lifetime in the investigation of ancient measurements’… and wrote ‘I was fortunate enough to come across a set of Egyptians documents, well known but neglected, that prove that by the time of the first dynasties the Egyptians had measured down to the minute the latitude and longitude of all the main points of the course of the Nile, from the equator to the Mediterranean Sea. Following this first result I have traced a series of texts (all earlier than the beginning of Greek science) which, starting from Egypt, provide positional data that cover most of the Old World, from the rivers Congo and Zambesi to the Norwegian coast, from the Gulf of Guinea to the peaks of Switzerland and river junctions in Central Russia. The data are so precise that they are a source of discomfort….’” Article by Joan Covey title “African Sea Kings in America? Evidence from Early Maps” Book “African Presence in Early America” Editor Ivan Van Sertima Page 167
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:12:23 +0000
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