I've only recently started reading fingerprints of the gods so I apologize if my questions are addressed later on in the book but I am kind of confused when it comes to the Piri Reis and Oronteus Finaeus Maps. The book details that what makes these maps so special is they portray Antarctica as it would have been over 6000 years ago before the continent was encapsulated in ice implying that there were those who had traveled to the continent, recorded this data, and passed it on at least till 1500 AD so that it could be shown in these two maps. Hancock also mentions that the maps portray the land under the Ice Sheet look incredibly similar to what was shown after a 1958 seismic survey of Antarctica adding further evidence to the idea there was a civilization before 4000 BC. This seems to make sense but what I fail to see is, if we had knowledge of the Pari Reis and Oronteus Finaeus Maps (as mentioned in the book, Hapgood found the Oronteus map in the Library of Congress) what happened from ~1500 AD - ~2000 AD to make us lose this knowledge especially when we were in possession of the maps. Why did we have to have to rediscover the land of Antarctica?
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