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by n0rm
4349 days ago
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In BBC's Museum Mysteries docus, in the Topkapı Palace episode, they offer their theory for this. They think that Piri Reis (commander of the navy at that time) obtained maps from ships that passed through the Bosphorus. He was then able to draw a current map of the world from all the diverse information. They basically explored the world without ever leaving home. |
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I had an amazing tour guide who, among many other things, explained how everything had two layers of security (at least) built in. For instance, eunuchs in the Harem were always black just in case the castration was botched - that way, you could still tell the child was not the Sultan's. A bit more here: http://jmilton6000.wordpress.com/2006/11/23/the-harem-and-th...
Talk about redundancy.