Ancient Maps and Whistleblowers Reveal a Lost Continent

The Piri Reis map, a premodern world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer

of the same name is often cited as an intriguing piece of evidence. This map curiously

depicts the South Pole as it would've been without ice, a geological state that hasn't existed

for over 6,000 years, raising questions about how such accurate cartography could have been achieved.The

Mahabharata, an ancient Indian epic, contains references to Atala,

a lost continent far to the south, described as a beautiful and prosperous land. Intriguingly,

scholars have noted similarities between descriptions of Atala and what we know of prehistoric

Antarctica. Could this be a poetic account of a civilization that once thrived at