An ancient Journey!
Who really discovered America? Ancient Greeks seem to have known about the existence of the North America and the Arctic Circle, which they called Hyperborea, that is to say, far north!
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato, in 360 BC, through the philosophical dialogues of "Critia" and "Timaeus", analyzed the Atlantis theory, arguing that it was a continent crossing the Atlantic, while it was larger than Asia and Libya together.
Over the centuries, it has been thought possible that Plato meant the American continent, not Atlantis. Many scholars and analysts have argued that based on the correct translation of Plato's texts, Atlantis is placed in the Mediterranean rather than the Atlantic or some other exotic location. However, the historical facts do not favor this theory, since in the 4th and 5th centuries, ancient Greeks could not know the American continent.
In 1996, Mark Macmenamin, a professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College in the United States, discovered and interpreted a series of images on the back of a gold coin of Carthage, dating back to 350 BC.
These coins are considered to be the world's oldest maps, proving, as the distinguished geologist argues, that the Carthusians had arrived at the New World.
What is more interesting about the finding is that the specific currency of Carthage was released in the same decade, when Plato referred to the Atlantis story, and revealed that there was a great continent beyond the Hercules columns.
In Greek mythology, the "Hercules columns" were two poles that Hercules had set up when he went the Esperides's apples to Eurystheus. The ancient Greeks believed that they were on the Iberian peninsula - today's Gibraltar.
Piri Reis Map
The Piri Reis map was named after a famous admiral of the Turkish fleet. It was designed in 1513, almost two decades after America's discovery by Christopher Columbus, and depicts the west coast of Africa, Europe as well as the entire American continent in the Atlantic.
According to Piri Reis, however, this map was based on many other maps dating back to the 4th century BC!
It shows South America with a sharp tilt to the east almost at a 90-degree angle, creating the illusion that South America surrounds the Atlantic at the bottom of the map.
There are historians who speculate that the horizontal section we see on the map may be Antarctica, which is paradoxical since Antarctica was discovered only 300 years later.
If indeed Piri Reis borrowed information from other ancient charts dated back to the 4th century BC, then it undoubtedly reinforces the assumption that Plato in 360 BC probably knew the existence of the American continent to include it in its history.
It is also likely that the obvious mistake in the map of Piri Reis, which might appear on the ancient maps, explains why Plato had the wrong impression that the vast continent beyond the Hercules columns surrounded the Atlantic Ocean.
According to the researcher and author Christos A. Djonis, further evidence suggests that ancient Greeks knew the existence of North America and, as they seemed, knew the existence of the Arctic Circle, the bridge that united northern Europe with North America. This area called Hyperborea.
The legendary Hyperborea
Ancient Greeks seem to have known about North America, beyond the Atlantic, and were familiar with the area around the Arctic Circle. An area that was not particularly accessible during the winter months. In fact, it was the bridge that united, northern Europe with North America. This land called it Hyperborea. That is, "Extremely North".
It is believed that the ancient Greeks believed that in the Hyperborea, the sun never slept, glowed constantly for at least 6 months a year. The only place where this could happen was the area above the Arctic Circle, which is not easily accessible in the winter.
The poet Pindaros has written:
Την θαυμαστήν οδόν την άγουσαν εις τας πανηγύρεις των Υπερβορείων ούτε πεζός, ούτε δια πλοίων ερχόμενος θα δυνηθείς να εύρεις.
"" The wondrous journey that took place at the fairs of the Hyperboreans, neither a pedestrian, nor a ship coming in will be able to find ... "
These Pindaros words were seen as proof of the exact location of the Hyperboreans. So, considering that it was somewhere "extremely north", that the sun never slept and that it was an inaccessible area on foot or by boat, the thought that it was not a "Mythical" but a real location became more believable.
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