Piri Reis map

The Piri Reis map is a world map founded in 1513 from military intelligence by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis.

About the artifact
=== The map is the extant western third of a world map drawn on gazelle skin parchment, with dimensions variously reported as,90 cm × 63 cm, 86 cm × 60 cm, 90 cm × 65 cm, 85 cm × 60 cm,87 cm × 63 cm, and 86 cm × 62 cm.These discrepancies are largely due to the damaged corner. === The map was signed by Piri Reis, an Ottoman-Turkish admiral, geographer and cartographer, and dated to the month of Muharram in the Islamic year 919 AH, equivalent to 1513 AD.