In your books, you write about maps, especially old maps from 1538, which also show longitude. What is your opinion on how we should approach these detailed maps? Was it created by a long-extinct civilization?

Graham Hancock: Yes, somehow. On some old maps, their author left his own manuscript, in which he mentions that his map is created according to much older maps. This also applies, for example, to the map of Piri Reis. Piri Reis was a Turkish admiral and the author of a map from 1513, on which he himself writes that it was composed of 100 different maps. These maps were so old that they fell apart. He theorizes that they came from the Library of Alexandria in Egypt from before the fire. So his map is compiled according to older maps whose origin is unknown. If we look at the details of this map and many others from the same period, we find that they show the world during the ice age, not what it looks like now. The sea level on them is much lower than today and the land is connected, for example, in the places of today's Indonesia. The Malay Peninsula and the islands of Indonesia as we know them today looked completely different 12000 years ago. In their place was a huge continent, which is shown on many maps as well as Antarctica. Our civilization did not discover Antarctica until 1818. It is a mystery that it is found on maps from the 15th century, which were created according to much older sources. We really need to think about this, because it is evidence of mapping the world with a very high degree of accuracy. Today we can measure latitude, anyone can do it, but measuring the exact longitude requires more advanced technology. We did not succeed until the end of the 17th, the beginning of the 18th century. You must have a chronometer. Follow the time at the point you left. It is a question of technological progress. The fact that we find such a precisely measured longitude on old maps is probably proof of the existence of an unknown advanced civilization.