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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorPain" data-source="post: 4701226" data-attributes="member: 82012"><p>Tonight on the history Channel, I saw a 2009 documentary called Ancient Aliens, which argued that many ancient mysteries from the bible and from history were interventions by an Alien race. ARRRRGHH. There was a great deal wrong with this program. But I will stick with its discussion of the Piri Reis Map. As a history student we had to research the significance of the Piri Reis map for our Historiography final. It is a 16th century map of the world by a Turkish admiral named Piri Reis. It shows Europe, Parts of Africa, North America and South America. There is a landmass in the bottom of the map attached to south america that some claim is antarctica. The show makes several incredible claims. First, that it must be from aliens, because it is the first map to show antarctica and it is rendered accurately. This couldn't be further from the truth. The map is not accurate at all. It has numerous errors. The errors are understandable given the time period, but they exist. Also, it is unclear if this is meant to be antarctica at all. It is attached to South America on the map and many think it is just a sloppy way to continue the coast of that continent. It also isn't the first map to have a landmass in the vicinity of antarctica. It was convention to do so. Not because people knew it was there, but because they anticipated another continent might exist to the south. I wouldn't mind the history chanel presenting these theories, if they placed them into context, and explained few take them seriously. They should also show the other side of the debate. Curse you History Chanel!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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