";s:4:"text";s:3295:"Professor Cortesão believes Antilia did represent a real island, and his study, in essence, is an attempt to prove that it got onto the 1424 chart, and all others following it, as a real island because it had been seen by some unknown Portuguese navigators. At the time of annexation of the states to the Union, the American Civil War broke out in the 1860s between the southern agricultural states and the northern industrial states. Officially, the Phoenicians were just following the coastline to be on the safe side. However, we do have an accurate abstract of the journal written by Bartolome de las Casas in the 1530s. He recognizes that, without the documentary proof of a specific voyage, the subject will ever remain in the realm of speculation and contention—“I know it only too well, alas,” he says. Odd lots were sold oil at different periods, and in 1946 the still-considerable remainder was bought by William H. Robinson, Ltd., a distinguished London firm dealing in rare books and manuscripts, in reputedly the largest single purchase ever made by a dealer. But actually, if you want to see the remains of a real person that fits this description, you do not need to look further than “The woman from Skrydstrup” dated to 1,300 BC Denmark. 1 2. As the first representation of the real or fancied island of Antilia, bearing the parent name of the Caribbean Antilles of today, the 1424 Chart is a “find” of great historical importance, and a worthy addition to the Bell Collection. But there are many other things besides pottery, swastikas and strange figurines that could testify that there was a contact with Cucuteni culture. Bravo for your research work. New ones, spun from the myths and fables of Irish seafarers, the Norsemen and Arab cosmographers, found their places on maps until the outer borders of medieval charts were as crowded with islands as the Florida Keys. 1 - Tetractys, The Newton stone inscription - a marker of Scoto-Norman history. Moreover, Professor Cortesão points out that the name Antilia is composed of two Portuguese words, See a list of other articles on Columbus in. There is a whole literature on the subject, for, if real, it could only be the New World. Upon the recommendation of scholars at the British Museum, Professor Cortesão, a Portuguese representative at UNESCO and one of the world’s acknowledged authorities on Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century maps and charts, was then invited to make a study of it.