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Even more astonishing, these maps outline glaciers and land areas which are known to have existed in the Ice Age... before the last great shift of the earth's crust an estimated ten thousand years ago. This fact led Mallery to conclude that tbe,origjnal on which the Piri Re'is maps were apparently based had to have been drawn before the Ice Age. Professor Charles Hapgood, a science historian, heard of Mallery's woik and turned the maps into a class study project at Keene State College. His students painstakingly compared each detail with modern charts and found that the ancient maps were never more than five degrees off... and those errors were probably due to land movements that occurred after the originals were drawn. Many of the details of the early maps correlated precisely with modern surveys. The results of Hapgood's studies, together with full-colour reproductions of the maps, were published in a book titled Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, Modem scientists can't seem to agree on the age of mankind. Each year produces a new bit of bone and new controversy. Some claim man might be half a million years old. Others offer more conservative estimates ranging between thirty to seventy thousand years. But all seem to share the notion that our ancestors were embarrassingly primitive ten thousand years ago. They certainly were not developed enough to sail and chart the earth. It would have been impossible for anyone to contrive the maps in 1929, the year they were found in Constantinople, It would have been even more impossible for someone to hoax them in 1513. And it is downright ridiculous to think that someone could have surveyed the earth before the Ice Age. Modern scientists have a very scientific method for coping with such humiliating discoveries. They put them in the basements of their museums and forget them. The museums are filled with such erratics, as they are called. A cube of metal, carefully machined, notched, and rounded on one side, was found in the centre of a block of coal in Austria in 1885. It's still in a museum in Salzburg and no one has ever come up with an explanation for it. Basing their conclusions on the age of the coal bed. various experts have estimated it to be three hundred thousand years old. That makes it quite a bit younger than the piece of gold thread that workmen found imbedded in eight feet of rock at a quarry in Rutherford Mills, England. The London Times announced the discovery on June 22nd. 1844... and the experts mumbled that it had to be sixty million years old. Who could have dropped a gold thread in England sixty million years ago ? Or who could have manufactured that iron and nickel cube three hundred thousand years back? Maybe these things were the handiwork of the same people who ma’e the strange pieces of very ancient pottery which have been found in rock quarries and coal mines around the world along with steel nails, perfect glass lenses, and even - believe it or not -bones of prehistoric animals with bullets in them. Giant chains have been found imbedded in great rocks in both North and South America. Not merely imbedded but actually passing through the rocks. They seem to predate the arrival of the Europeans by thousands of years. Electric batteries have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs. A huge slab of perfect green glass weighing many tons was found in a cave in Israel a few years ago. It ranks as the largest piece of glass ever cast and is very ancient. Who made it, how, and why are still unsolved mysteries.