Considered to be one of the most beautiful, most interesting, most mysterious maps to have survived from the Great Age of Discoveries, it is also one of the least understood maps in the history of explorations.

The Piri Reis Map was discovered in 1929 by Bay Halil Etham, director general of the Topkapki Serai in Istanbul,  while the palace was being converted to a museum of antiquities. The map itself is actually only one-third of a larger world map, the rest having being lost.

Introduction

The map…