The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt, Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I (r. 1512–1520).

On October 9, 1929, a German theologian named Gustav Adolf Deissmann was cataloguing items in the Topkapi Palace library in Istanbul when he happened across a curious parchment located among some disregarded material. On the gazelle skin parchment was a map, now referred to as the Piri Reis map.

Jan 2, 2018 · While cataloging antique items he found a gazelle-skin parchment in a stack of discarded items. This parchment had a map drawn on it, and Deissmann was amazed to see that it appeared to show the outline of South America. He rescued the parchment, which is now known as the Piri Reis Map.

Jul 25, 2016 · Compiled in 1513, the Piri Reis map is one of the oldest post-Columbian world maps in existence. Drawn on gazelle skin by an Ottoman Turkish admiral and cartographer named Piri Reis, the map is extremely detailed for its time. The map has captivated and mystified scholars for years.

May 9, 2018 · The Piri Reis map was created in 1513, 260 years before James Cook discovered Antarctica. So why was it on this world map?

Mar 17, 2020 · Piri Reis map is a world map created by Ottoman-Turkish cartographer Ahmed Muhiddin Piri in 1513. The map has garnered attention because it appears to show an ice-free Antarctic coastline. If that is the case, then someone discovered and mapped Antarctica centuries before its reported discovery in 1773.

Aug 21, 2023 · It is one of the best-known early maps to depict the Americas, presenting a cartographic record of the oceanic voyages, expeditions and discoveries of Christopher Columbus and other early explorers in the last decade of the fifteenth century.

The Piri Reis World Map of 1513 was discovered in the Topkapı Palace Library in 1929. Piri Reis’s is a portolan-style world map created in a time when positioning recently discovered places was almost technically impossible.

Sep 18, 2023 · The world of ancient cartography is replete with enigmas, few as beguiling as the Piri Reis map. Thought to have been drafted in 1513 by Ottoman admiral Reis, not only does it display unparalleled precision, it also contains details which defy the accepted historical narrative of global discovery.

Dec 15, 2022 · Compiled in 1513, the Piri Reis map is one of the oldest post-Columbian world maps in existence. Drawn on gazelle skin by an Ottoman-Turkish admiral and cartographer Ahmet Muhiddin Piri, best known as Piri Reis, the map is extremely detailed for its time.