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101 zon River, and so on. How could that be known even before the Spaniards had reached Mexico (in 1519) or South America (in 1531)? In all these instances, the mapmakers of the Age of Discov- ery stated that their sources were ancient maps from Phoeni- cia and "Chaldea," the Greek name for Mesopotamia. But as others who have studied these maps had concluded, no mortal seamen, even given some advanced instruments, could have mapped these continents and their inner features in those early days, and certainly not of an ice-free Antarctica. Only et SCRITT ots | iS Figure 27 Figure 28 The Deluge