History Channel: Ancient Aliens Documentary. Explain this!

[famousringo]

Bamboleo said:

famousringo said:

I thought this whole thread was about lost human tech which has been found?

And I'm not proposing that people simply had our technology 5000 years ago. They had their own technology, which we may or may not have rediscovered. Easter Island, Stonehenge, and the Pyramids were once thought to be impossible for ancient civilizations to build, but it turns out that they had simply developed clever tools and techniques which had been lost to time for one reason or another. They used techniques which we simply wouldn't bother with nowadays because other solutions are open to us. Almost no construction these days even bothers with quarrying, so it's no small wonder that a civilization without concrete might be more clever with stonework than one which prefers to pour its own rock.

I just recalled now, in that same documentary there's a part where scientists talk about a map that was discovered some years ago.

 it's a map from medieval days (1500 AC more or less) were it shows the south pole and south America with accurate detail that rivals Nasa satellite's.

How was such a map made in those days I don't know, but I don't think they just jumped onto a boat, removed all the ice from Anctartida to see were land was taking place.

Well, they obviously didn't do that, because all the maps of that period refer to the continent as Terra Australis. They didn't know the difference between Antarctica and Australia.

I'm pretty sure this is the map you're talking about: http://zomb.tripod.com/ANTARCTI.HTM

And here's the link that explains that Oronteus Fineus' Terra Australis is a conflation of the northern coast of Australia and Tierra Del Fuego off the southern tip of South America:

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/dicuoghi/Piri_Reis/Finaeus_eng.htm