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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

hidden from view from 4000 BC (when the advancing ice sheet covered it)
until it was revealed again as a result of the comprehensive seismic
survey of Queen Maud Land carried out during 1949 by a joint British-
Swedish scientific reconnaissance team.
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If Piri Reis had been the only cartographer with access to such
anomalous information, it would be wrong to place any great weight on
his map. At the most one might say, ‘Perhaps it is significant but, then
again, perhaps it is just a coincidence.’ However, the Turkish admiral was
by no means alone in the possession of seemingly impossible and
inexplicable geographical knowledge. It would be futile to speculate
further than Hapgood has already done as to what ‘underground stream’
could have carried and preserved such knowledge through the ages,
transmitting fragments of it from culture to culture and from epoch to
epoch. Whatever the mechanism, the fact is that a number of other
cartographers seem to have been privy to the same curious secrets.
Is it possible that all these map-makers could have partaken, perhaps
unknowingly, in the bountiful scientific legacy of a vanished civilization?

21 Ibid., pp. 76-7 and 231-2.

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