Much of Piri Reis's biography is known only from his cartographic works, including his two world maps and the
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Kept in the Topkapı Palace Museum, the map is the remaining western third of a world map drawn on gazelle-skin parchment approximately 87 cm × 63 cm. The surviving portion shows the Atlantic Ocean wit… See more

Compared to the Islamic cartography of the era, the map shows an atypical knowledge of foreign discoveries. During the Age of Discovery, European voyages expanded the known world and disrupted the traditional c… See more

Piri Reis's inclusion of many foreign accounts was atypical within the Ottoman Empire. After the conquest of Constantinople, Sultan Mehmed II began a project of creating copies of traditional Islamic ma… See more

The Caribbean islands and the coastline in the Northwest corner of the map are widely believed to be based on a lost map drawn by Christopher Columbus, or under his supervision. The western coast on the map combines f… See more