Mysterious Map Of Ancient Africa
In all the world maps made till now, the wrong map of Africa is shown. In comparison to the real size of the African continent, this continent is shown to be very small. The trend of wrong map of Africa is not from today but has been going on for centuries. When the map of Africa was made for the first time, many lakes, rivers and cities were shown in this country and the shocking thing is that all these things were shown in the area around the Sahara Desert.
Till now many cartographers have made maps of Africa and experts refuse to accept any map as real. About 500 years ago, the first map of Africa was prepared and that map not only showed many lakes and rivers in Africa, but also showed a lush green forest in the middle of the Sahara Desert, whose size was equal to the city of Texas. Was. In the place where only desert is visible today, was there really so much greenery earlier or had cartographers deliberately made wrong maps of Africa? Apart from this, some such things were also shown on the maps of Africa, seeing which you will not believe your eyes.
Let’s try to solve the history of Africa maps. Sebastian Monster is placed in the category of the most influential cartographer in history because he was the first person who, apart from Africa, also prepared a map of Europe, North America, South America and even the Asia continent. The credit for preparing the first printed map of Asia also goes to Sebastian. In the map he prepared of Africa, many lakeside forests are shown in the Sahara region and he did not include desert anywhere in Africa in his map.
Sebastian made a map of Africa in the sixteenth century and in it he also showed many cities along the banks of lakes and rivers. It is surprising that how were so many cities possible in the Sahara Desert just 500 years ago? Even fortifications and some castles around many cities could be seen in his map. Sebastian was not the first person to show several cities on the map of Africa. Before that, in the medical world map of the Catalan Atlas of the year 1375, some big empires and cities can be seen in Africa. At that time, the Mali Empire was being ruled by Mansa Musa, who has the status of the richest person ever on earth.
His net worth was double that of Elon Musk. In the year 1450, Italian cartographer Moro also prepared a world map, in which he showed Sahara surrounded by stone cities. If in reality so many cities and civilizations existed in Africa, then how did they disappear in 500 years and how the lush green forests suddenly turned into desolate deserts. In the year 1578, the famous Flemish cartographer Granada Mercator described a large network of rivers in the African continent.
had shown. Apart from this, Italian citizen Fernando Batali had shown in the map made in 1565 that there used to be many big lakes in Africa, which were connected by river systems. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Müller showed heavily populated cities around the Sahara Desert in his map, as well as river and lake systems throughout the continent, and many such vintage African maps can be found, including some similar to this one. Claims have been made. Surely all this is not a coincidence or a mistake.
There must have been some kind of connection between all these maps. One thing to note here is that we are not claiming that all these maps are correct, nor are we confirming that 500-600 years ago, there would have been a lot of greenery in Africa instead of desert. But what do all these maps want to tell? According to some experts, all these maps are showing the lost ancient civilization of Africa. Today, with the help of modern science and technology, scientists have discovered what Africa looks like today. It wasn’t always like that. About 5 to 10,000 years ago, there used to be green and tropical forests here.
Many times such myths are spread on social media that the Sahara Desert is million years old, but in reality it is new. The desert and is barely five thousand years old. Due to climate change, rapid ecological changes were suddenly seen in the African continent, whereas at one time the people living here used to do a lot of farming. A Portuguese map shows in great detail how much greenery there was in the Sahara region earlier and how people also used to do farming here. If you are not surprised by all these things then let me share another exciting information with you.
Five thousand years ago there used to be a huge fresh water lake right in the middle of the Sahara. That lake was called Mega Chart Lake. This is the world’s largest fresh water lake. Used to be. Today, the world’s largest fresh water lake is America’s Lake Superior. Whose total area is 82 thousand 100 square kilometers. Whereas the area of Africa’s Lake Chaat is more than 65 lakh square kilometers. But with time this article started drying up rapidly. Today the total area of this article is only 17 thousand square kilometers.
Only this is left. In the last five thousand years alone, 90% of the area of the four lakes has been lost and the way. Considering the shortage of water in Africa, the lake may dry up completely in the coming few years. Can. If there really was such a huge lake in the Sahara, then the existence of many civilizations around it can also be accepted. Friends, scientists believe that the maps of Africa that are seen 500-600 years ago actually depict Ancient Africa. All these maps are based on the maps of Ptolemy who had prepared a map of Africa in 150 AD.
About 2000 years ago, there might have been a proper river system in Africa and the same information was passed from generation to generation and based on that, all the cartographers might have prepared maps of Africa. The coastline of Antarctica is also shown in the maps prepared by some cartographers around the fifteenth century, although Antarctica was discovered in the year 1820. One thing is clear from this that the cartographer himself did not make all the maps by travelling.
World maps and maps of different continents were prepared by being inspired by other maps or by combining different maps. Let’s once again come back to the same map from where we started the Blog. There were many more things worth noting in Sebastian Monster’s map of the African continent. He has mentioned a special location in the Western Sahara region. This is the same location where the Richard Structure stands today. Sebastian took a round. The structure is made in the map and the recharge structure is also completely circular.
Its diameter is about 45 kilometers. This structure located in Mauritania is also called Isle of the Sahara Desert. Although this structure is named as a geographical phenomenon, but according to some theories, there used to be a rich civilization here. Some people also call it the ancient city of Atlantis. This city had a very good network of rivers and canals. According to Sebastian’s map, many rivers flowed around this area of Western Sahara. In such a situation, are the theories related to Richard Structure true?
There is a need for in-depth research regarding this. In the year 1581, Heinrich Bunting had made a map, in which he showed many rivers originating from the Atlas Mountains of North Africa and all these rivers were also flowing towards the Richard Structure. And a similar map was made during the time of the Roman Empire, in which rivers are shown originating from the Atlas Mountains and after which these rivers join the Atlantic Ocean. If you look carefully at the Sebastian Monsters map, you will notice something else.
He has shown in his map a giant who is sitting without clothes. This giant is in the part of Nigeria and Cameroon. Through this, did he want to convey that in ancient times, giant humans used to roam the earth, because there are many theories related to this. But at present Sebastian’s map cannot be linked to Giant. According to historians and some experts, people might have found the skeleton of a huge elephant and they would not have any idea whose skull belonged to such a big person.
They might have thought that giant-sized humans must have lived on Earth in earlier times, but in reality the skull belonged to an elephant, which was mistaken for the skull of a giant human and Sebastian had shown the same in his map. Due to similar misunderstandings and misinterpretations, some mistakes may have been made in history and those mistakes may have been adopted by other people with time and at one time people started accepting those mistakes as truth.
Well, all this is from the era when we did not have any kind of advanced tools or technology. Today we have all kinds of modern devices and satellites, but still we have not been able to get the correct map of the world. For example, on the world map, Greenland is shown to be approximately the size of Africa, whereas in reality the African continent is 14 times larger than Greenland. In such a situation, it would be dishonest to trust any map. Friends, I hope you liked our today’s Blog and got to know or learn something new from this Blog.
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