Uncovering the Secrets of Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilizations During the Ice Age

bob: I first read this book years ago and found it really addresses an early history of mankind's need to see what's around the corner. Keep an open mind when reading and realize that this is not fiction Hapgood is trying to uncover.

United States on Apr 11, 2023

John DeForest: Interesting read, as a friend said there is so much accepted history no one wants to untertake updating it !

United States on Mar 18, 2023

Luciano: Una vera e propria miniera di informazioni sulla cartografia e sulla sua storia. Essenziale per gli appassionati di geografia

Italy on Mar 03, 2022

bigD0880: I'm critical of the critics of this book. I feel like too many are coming at it purely from a literary perspective and over analyzing in their arrogance. This is a book for geographers, cartographers, and GIS nerds. Graham Hancock mentions it in some of his lectures, but from his comments I dont think he actually read it, because he makes assertions about the Pireaus Map that arent in this book.
The arguments in the book are extremely convincing circumstantial evidence for geographers. Unfortunately the only way to prove them is to recover the actual purported source data that the Pireaus was created from, a map that now is almost surely dust, or locked away forever in the Vatican Archive or hidden with Templar treasure.

Simply put; It was impossible to create a map as accurate as the Pireaus at the time it was created. Calculating accurate longitude was a mystery in those days. Creating that data by chance is highly, highly, improbable.

The creators of the source map clearly knew: the exact dimensions of the Earth, how to calculate longitude, how to use trigonometry to create accurate, navigable map projections of the earths curvature.

The most interesting...

United States on Feb 11, 2020

Avid Reader: This book is not for everyone. To enjoy it you nee3d to have a real interest in old maps and/or an interest in early trading routes as well as an interest in early civilizations during the ice age. This project was begun by a college professor and his students. It turned into a larger project than they thought it would be but they have done an exceptional job on it.
There initial search led them to what is called the Piri Re'is. Piri Re'is. was a Turkish Admiral and the map is dated from 1513 However it is believed by many to be a copy of prototypes drawn in pre-Hellenic times and perhaps as early as the last Ice Age. One of the most startling features of the ancient maps is that it appears that Antarctica is partly free of ice.
This is not a book to read and forget. If one is very interested in searching earth as far back as possible having this book near you to refer to as needed is a tremendous help.

United States on Jan 22, 2015

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India on Dec 29, 2014

Clifford: I heard about this book, and wanted to have my own copy. I was not disappointed. The book presents enough mysteries to keep one wondering. Just how did these ancient maps get built. How did they see the coastline of Antarctica that have been under the ice for at least 10000 years? How did they have such accurate information?

A lot to think about here ... and certainly gives one a more insightful view into ancient humanity.

Canada on Mar 14, 2014

sputnik1: this book has concrete evidence of an advanced worldwide civilization existing many thousands of years before ancient Egypt, there is evidence that these people must have lived when the ice age had not yet ended in the northern hemisphere and when Alaska was still connected with Siberia by the Pleistocene, ice age land bridge. this book is one of my most favourite in my collection I have read it many times and every time I read it, it is like reading it for the first time, what I find mind boggling is WHY WHY WHY the so called experts and goverments of the world suppress the truth of how long we have existed on this earth, and WHY do they destroy and make evidence disappear forever ? did we evolve on this planet ? or did we evolve on another planet ? is that why they suppress the truth about UFOs and ETs, the UK and USA have known for many years that UFOs and ETs exist, let me give you an example why I believe how primitive we really are, in a pursuit by Belgian jets involving UFOs in 1989 in 22.5 seconds the UFOs made 5 changes of direction, 14 changes of speed and also 14 changes in altitude all in 22.5 seconds these are figures confirmed by Glons CRC there is nothing on this...

United Kingdom on Nov 13, 2013

R. Jones: The central premise of this book has two parts. First, the portolan maps (like the one on the cover) that came into use in medieval Europe were not a new advance. These portolan charts, Hapgood sets out to prove, are the rediscovery of ancient maps that required a great deal of geographical and mathematical knowledge. This leads into the second part, Hapgood asserts that the geographical and mathematical knowledge was far beyond not only the medieval sailors, but the ancient Romans, classical Greeks, Carthaginians, and even the Phoenicians. The extraordinary claim of the book is that only a race of "ancient sea kings" currently undiscovered by modern society were capable of making these maps.

Hapgood's theory about the portolan charts being copies is very believable. It's very fascinating too. He shows the grotesque maps of the most educated medieval scholars and then he shows the shockingly accurate portolan charts. The maps advance or change little for several centuries after the earliest maps. Even more impressive are the inaccuracies of the maps. If a person makes a map, the areas nearest them should be the most accurate while the areas farthest from them should be the...

United States on May 03, 2012

J. C. Faffa: Livre stupéfiant, d''autant qu'il est très sérieusement documenté et charpenté. Hapgood y présente notamment une carte dressée en 1513, par Piri Reis, amiral de la flotte turque, et qui montre une partie du continent Antarctique (qui a été découvert seulement en 1800 et quelques) ! Parmi d''autres cartes un peu postérieures -les fameux 'portulans'- Hapgood en présente quelques autres, tout aussi extraordinaires, telle celle d''Oronteus Finaeus, de 1531, qui -comble- montre l''Antarctique telle qu'elle était avant d'être recouverte par les glaces, c''est à dire il y a au moins quelques milliers d''années, ou celle de Hadji Ahmed, datée de 1559, qui comporte entre autres un tracé quasi parfait de la côte ouest des Etats-Unis. Ces cartes et leurs projections sont analysées très soigneusement mais on peut regretter que l'auteur ne semble pas avoir effectué une recherche aussi approfondie sur le problème de leur authenticité et de leurs sources. Cette critique est cependant a tempérer par le fait que, vue la complexité de ces cartes, des faux non évidents semblent difficiles à concevoir. Hapgood, en tout cas, se garde de se prononcer quant à l'origine de...

France on Nov 01, 2010