Those are beautiful maps. Fabulous art work for each time period.
On my search for "truth and enlightenment" I delved into a lot of things, and below is a "paste" of an entry I made in another forum regarding how the ancients could know longitude.
Before a pyramid can be built, the site must be surveyed. When one is at sea, one must know where they are. To do that, one must be able to find latitude & longitude. Historically, it seems most ancient peoples studied the stars in detail, including the Egyptians to align their pyramids, and the seafaring Phoenicians looked to the stars for a guidance system.
The ancients needed an instrument that could:
1) tell time
2)find latitude & longitude
3)measure the angle of the stars
4)predict the solstices and equinoxes
5)measure the precession of the quinoxes
6)find the ecliptic pole
7)find the North and South Poles
8)be used to make maps and charts
9)be used to design pyramids and henges
The instrument of the Ancient Wise Ones, who invented Astrology & Astronomy and functioned in the above mentioned capacities, was the CELTIC CROSS.
The Celtic Cross, which is an ancient & sacred symbol, appears to be a representation of an ancient instrument that was used by our ancestors as far back as Neolithic times. The cross is formed of an upright with cross bars set at 90 degrees to each other. In the center is a hub and on the hub is hung a wheel, designed to rotate between the crossbars on the hub. The arms are wider on the outer edge, than on the inner. The amazing cross is capable of measuring angles to an accuracy of 3 Arc minutes, showing that the re-discovery of the cross and it's purpose, may be more important than the pyramid, since the pyramid could not exist without the cross.
Remnants of such a cross were discovered by the House of Amon, in the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza (Egypt again!) Further relics were still in the shaft, seen clearly in the photos taken by Rudolph Gatenbrink in 1994 with his robot.
By copying and assembling the relics in a logical format, the astounding result was a cross and a plumbline of incredible accuracy.
This artifact is capable of measuring all angles possible and coupled with sufficent astronomical knowledge, it reveals all the mysteries of the Ancients; how they kept time and measured the stars, sun, moon, planets and sailed the oceans of the world. But it goes further than that, exposing the Ancient's fundamental spirituality and understanding of the world, nature and the universe.
Conclusion - the Ancients were clever dudes!
Please go to
www.crichtonmiller.com to read about his resurrection of the Celtic Cross and it's purpose.
I really enjoyed the story about how he put together his information.
