Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings
Charles Hapgood

Charles Hapgood's classic 1966 book on ancient maps is back in print after 20 years. Hapgood produces concrete evidence of an advanced world-wide civilization existing many thousands of years before ancient Egypt. He has found the evidence in many beautiful maps long known to scholars, the Piri Reis Map that shows Antarctica, the Hadji Ahmed map, the Oronteus Finaeus and other amazing maps.

Hapgood concluded that these maps were made from more ancient maps from the various ancient archives around the world, now lost. Hapgood also concluded that the ancient map-makers were in some ways much more advanced scientifically than 16th century Europe, the ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Babylonia.

Not only were these unknown people more advanced in map-making than any people prior to the 18th century, it appears they mapped all the continents. The Americas were mapped thousands of years before Columbus. Antarctica was mapped when its coasts were free of ice. There is evidence that these people must have lived when the ice age had not yet ended in the Northern Hemisphere and when Alaska was still connected with Siberia by the Pleistocene, ice age "land bridge."

Table of Contents

Preface
Foreword by Dr. John K. Wright

I. The Treasure Hunt Begins
II. The Secrets of the Piri Reis Map
III. The Piri Reis Map in Detail
IV. The Antarctica Maps of Oronteus Finaeus, Hadji Ahmed, and Mercator
V. Ancient Maps of the East and West
VI. The Ancient Maps of the North
VII. The Scientific Implications of the Maps
VIII. A Civilization that Vanished

Acknowledgements
Notes
Appendix
Geographical Tables
Bibliography
Index

315 pages, 8 x 10, Paperback, Illustrated

Price - $19.95