Ancient Maps that Tell the Story of a World-Wide Global Survey in 3000 BC?

The year is 1799. The explorer Humboldt is paddling down the wild waters of the upper Orinoco. Formidable cliffs press upon him from both sides. Suddenly he glimpses, etched in the rock high above, an array of strange messages.

Humboldt asks the natives what it means. Their reply is so startling, he almost tips out of his canoe.

Exactly 130 years later, Halil Edhem, Director of the National Museums of Turkey, is cleaning out debris in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. He comes upon the dusty fragments of an old map. Examination shows that it was compiled by an Admiral Piri Reis in 1513, from portions of much older maps.

Not until 1956, however, is the map subjected to a serious analysis. The Hydrographic Office of the U.S. Navy issues a statement. What it reveals is almost unbelievable.

Just twelve years later, Richard Nixon arrives in China. A cultural

exchange is initiated with America. Interest is awakened in an ancient Chinese document, the Shan Hai King. Something which this old manuscr…