In today's society, the concept of a map is closely linked to new technologies, browsers and Google Maps, the latter being a kind of magic window through which we can discover the world, something that however modern it may seem to us, as novel it has only the format and if not look at these old maps but they are an incredible magic window with which to discover the past.
3 very MYSTERIOUS old maps
The map of Vasagard rock
This is shown by this mysterious fragment of a map found inside the Vasagard Neolithic Temple. It is an engraving of almost 5000 years ago that according to the researchers of the National Museum of Denmark could represent topographic details of a part of the landscape of the island, such as fields of spikes or something similar, carved in a piece of rock that shows signs of being completed with another piece that, by At the moment, it has not been found and it is thought that they could have been used in some kind of prehistoric ritual.
The map of Moli de Salt
But there is no need to leave so far to find mysterious maps of the past as well as demonstrated by researchers, Marcos Garcia and Manuel Vaquero , responsible for the analysis of the piece found in the site of Moli from Salt , in Tarragona, during excavations at the end of last year.The object found is a shale plate depicting a kind of plan of a town composed of seven huts, which according to the analysis were incised with the same instrument and by the same author, but the most surprising thing is when this map dates, which according to studies belongs to the Upper Palaeolithic 13,000 or 14,000 years ago.

The oldest astrological map in the world
The sky has also been the object of a map since ancient times, as evidenced by this astrological chart discovered in 1983 inside a chamber Funeral home in Ausaka, a town in Nara Prefecture, Japan. The Kitora Tomb , as it is known, was built during the 17th and 8th centuries to bury an aristocrat of Emperor Tenmu's reign The small pantheon, 1 meter high by 2.4 long, is perfectly aligned with the four cardinal points indicated with their respective symbols: Northern Black Turtle , the Eastern Blue Dragon , the Red Bird of the South and the White Tiger of the West .While on the roof of the tomb we find an astrological mural composed of a series of circles concentric that overlap at some points between which the constellations are positioned, rep presented by small discs of gold foils.In this composition there is no lack of mythological elements and the zodiac signs .All these careful details have not gone unnoticed by the scientific community that since its discovery to the continuous date studying the mystery of this ancient and mysterious map.
Which one do you stay with?
If you are interested in these ancient mysteries, we recommend:
-The mysterious window that hides where the Ark is hidden by the Templars
-The most enigmatic book in history: the Voynich manuscript
Images: historiayarqueologia.com, IPHES, Tanya Sedletskaya
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