But it's not enough time to enable them to create a civilisation as I expect you're imagining it.

I mean for one the world didn't become warm enough for agriculture immediately after the ice age as we defined it ended

it continued to warm until the Y.D when it rapidly cooled for 1,300 years and ever since has been more or less continuously warming

And only then we did we get agriculture on any significant scale. And 5-6,000 years later, urban settlement like Eridu, Ur, and so forth.

I find it exceptionally hard to explain maps of Antarctica as it was in Y.D. without a civilization that existed at that period.

It wouldn't be the first time a landmass was added to a map that didn't exist.

Others speculate that the Ottoman map I think you're referencing actually depicts South America.

Old Worlders weren't even aware of the New World until 1000 AD-ish.

I find it suspicious that it would _randomly_ be so similar to Y.D. era Antarctica

And even then it wasn't widely known to exist until the dawn of the 16th century

Could you show me?

It's definitely appropriate to be sceptical of extraordinary claims

The depictions of Y.D Antarctica compared to the maps that predate the discovery of the archipelago itself.

But it's also appropriate to not dismiss facts which are very hard to explain with the mainstream theories.

I mean, even allowing for a civilisation in the Sahara region,

There's absolutely no reason why they would know Antarctica exists.

Humans have been sedentary for over 12,000 years and it took us the better part of 11,500 to work out that America existed.

I'm skeptical that an as of yet unsupported theory for a civilisation in what is now the Sahara would have the capacity to know Antarctica exists and then map it.

And even if they did those maps would not have survived to the people who ended up drawing new ones.

There was a great thread on 8/pol/ about this (yeah, I know, I was also surprised that there's something besides natsoc larping)

Hm.

I find it an interesting thought exercise.

But to me it just sounds like someone saw a coincidence in map drawing and a theory for what a whole continent might have once looked like,

And then surmised the only possible solution is a civilisation in a green sahara that predates any known development of agriculture.

I'll tell you one thing though,

It'd make for an excellent novel series.

I'd read it.

Discovering an ancient civilisation buried beneath the sands of the Sahara.

There's this guy who did a lot of reasearch on it, I can't find his name right now

I'll not lie though I'm more fascinated by civilisations we know existed but are unfathomably ancient.

Akkad, Mitanni, the Harappans, etc.

I'll try find it, brb

There was a sick Joe Rogan podcast with Graham Hancock about discovering an ancient civilisation in the Americas and the Amazon rainforest and stuff. Incredibly fun listen.

but probably bullshit

All your conversation is solely predicated on personal diatribes and vitriolic attacks against me, you've never been able to form a single coherent argument, you keep persisting with "rhetoric" and empty sentences and then you act like what you uttered made even remotely an ounce of sense, so please, if you aren't able to converse without acting like a 10 year old, keep your opinions to yourself.
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