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Mystery, legends, and misinterpretation surround the Buache Map, a French cartographer’s depiction of Antarctica without ice.

10 Mysterious Ancient Maps 10Home Sweet Home Archaeologists at Spain’s Moli del Salt site discovered what may be a 13,800-year-old map. The schist slab features seven semi-circular etchings, which experts believed to be huts. The shape coincides with modern hunter-gatherer dwellings of the Kalahari Bushmen and Aboriginals of the Australian Outback. The number seven reflects a typical population size. If true, this would be the earliest image of a human habitation ever discovered. Anthropologi...