The Piri Re'is map was found in 1929 in the Imperial Palace in Constantinople. It is painted on parchment and dated 919 A.H. (in the Islamic calendar), which corresponds to 1513 AD. It is signed by an admiral of the Turkish Navy named Piri Ibn Haji Memmed, also known as Piri Re'is. According to Piri Re'is,the map had been assembled from a set of 20 maps drawn in the time of Alexander the Great.
Translation of the map: http://www.sacred-texts.com/piri/pirikey.htm
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