Charles Hapgood's classic 1966 book on ancient maps is back in print
after 20 years. Hapgood produces concrete evidence of an advanced
worldwide civilization existing many thousands of years before ancient
Egypt. He has found the evidence in many beautiful maps long known to
scholars, the Piri Reis Map that shows Antarctica, the Hadji Ahmed map,
the Oronteus Finaeus and other amazing maps. Hapgood concluded that
these maps were made from more ancient maps from the various ancient
archives around the world, now lost. Hapgood also concluded that the
ancient mapmakers were in some ways much more advanced scientifically
than Europe in the 16th century, or than the ancient civilizations of
Greece, Egypt, and Babylonian. Not only were these unknown people more
advanced in mapmaking than any people prior to the 18th century, it
appears they mapped all the continents. The Americas were mapped
thousands of years before Columbus. Antarctica was mapped when its
coasts were free of ice. 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."