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Map accuracy high or low If we look at the six or seven example constellations from Europe alone, the quality of the accuracy results from the fact that several accuracy criteria are fulfilled together. The maps are largely identical to the corresponding coastlines. The sequence of constellations that resemble coastlines is identical to the sequence of coastal paths they represent. The constellations have largely identical orientations. Finally, the scale is also very similar. The important order from north to south is also identical. This means that northern regions were depicted in northern latitudes and southern regions in southern latitudes. This multitude of parallel correspondences alone leaves no room for doubt, because it can no longer be a coincidence. Especially as the constellation inventors themselves say that they depicted paths or routes of the ocean. There is another point to consider: There is another point to consider: IN its details and basic organisation, the Sumerian atlas is superior in precision to any later atlas up to the beginnings of the Baroque period. List of Worldmaps: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_historischer_Weltkarten
Precision and autokinesis are terms often used to cast doubt on the coherence of the evidence of cartography in the sky. Autokinesis has been around since the Big Bang and ensures that stars are constantly moving. So far it is correct. But the differences in the appearance of the constellations 3500 years ago and today really don't matter! Only if we go back 100,000 years, for example, do we see a big difference. This objection is therefore simply irrelevant. Even the precession does not have enough of an effect in just 3500 years to be relevant. At that time, the North Star was north of the constellation Dragon (above beta draconis) and thus still very far north and not so far from the North Pole as to have played a decisive role in coastal navigation. A third point is added: although today's North Star was not exactly the North Star of the Bronze Age, the Phoenicians still used it for navigation.
Q1) If there is only a small inaccuracy, you end up somewhere completely different! This objection would be more justified if the maps were not orientated to the currents and coastlines. A "big map as it can only exist naturally in the stars does not give the exact course but approximations that always lead you back to the right path. Let us imagine how the serpent bearer represents the current that leads us from Gibraltar to Cuba. Even without navigational aids in the stars, a rubber duck would find its own correct way. A ship only needs to be roughly in the Current. Of course, certain inaccuracies cannot be denied at this point. It is not a small-scale map with all the details but a large overview.
Has the earth changed? It is true that the earth is constantly changing. But it is also true that in the last 3,500 years, and there is this time factor again, the Earth has not changed significantly in the affected coastlines. Of course there was Pangea, but that was 100s of millions of years ago and we are only talking about 3,500 years, so there is no relevance here either. The Baltic Sea, for example, was still changing up to 7000 years ago, as was the North Sea (Doggerland), but even these changes in relevant areas happened too early to have any effect.
8) Can all this be checked from home? The good answer is basically yes! Of course you can do this at home and look at the northern starry sky. But there are small limitations with the maps that can be found there. Because not all maps are created by experts. There are designers who provide constellation drawings that only show the brightest stars of a constellation, for example. In this case, a star may be missing here and there and the constellation may appear slightly different in detail. There are also star charts that are simply shown mirror-inverted. Of course, everything is then reversed on these maps.
8) Can all this be checked from home? The good answer is basically yes! Of course you can do this at home and look at the northern starry sky. But there are small limitations with the maps that can be found there. Because not all maps are created by experts. There are designers who provide constellation drawings that only show the brightest stars of a constellation, for example. In this case, a star may be missing here and there and the constellation may appear slightly different in detail. There are also star charts that are simply shown mirror-inverted. Of course, everything is then reversed on these maps.
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Did people in the Bronze Age even have boats that could sail on the sea? The number of finds of boats drawn, carved into stone and found is astonishing. Thousands of Bronze Age images have been found from northern Europe to Asia. In particular, the discovery of the Uluburum boat, which is around 3500 years old and was found at the bottom of the Mediterranean at great depths, is a very practical example of how advanced the art of boat building was. The depictions in the Sistine Chapel of the North in Tannum in Sweden, which are around the same age, also show large longships with oars and masts. The oldest direct and indirect traces of ships and chariots in the world in northern Europe and only slightly later in Italy, Mesopotamia and Africa show that mobility had long since become a factor.
Can you navigate by it? The first answer is yes, if you have the approximate shape of the coastline in front of you, you can navigate according to it, even if there are certain deviations in such an old map. The second answer is that it has been proven experimentally and archaeologically by the voyage of the Abora2 in the Mediterranean. It turned out, for example, that on the way from Alexandria to Lebanon, sailing according to the constellation was more favourable than staying close to the coast. The fishermen there reported that you have to sail around the coastal arc at an angle of 53 degrees to avoid being trapped on the coast. The constellation, which was obviously created using mnemonics, shows precisely this route. Even if minor questions may have to remain unanswered in other places, this is a detail worthy of admiration.
Can all this be checked from home? The good answer is basically yes! Of course you can do this at home and look at the northern starry sky. But there are small limitations with the maps that can be found there. Because not all maps are created by experts. There are designers who provide constellation drawings that only show the brightest stars of a constellation, for example. In this case, a star may be missing here and there and the constellation may appear slightly different in detail. There are also star charts that are simply shown mirror-inverted. Of course, everything is then reversed on these maps.
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