The Weird 16th Century Maps of Sebastian Munster

Cannibals, cyclopes, giants, sea monsters, and questionable geography... The 16th-century German cartographer Sebastian Münster created some of the most memorable and influential maps of all time. His work is crucial to the history of cartography and continues to shape map-making centuries later.

[@Noticer_10-4]

I like old maps and i can not lie

[@onlyonewhyphy]

"cannot"

[@neversarium]

​@onlyonewhyphy you guys created a hideous language and yet force everyone to use it perfectly. That guy surely knows more languages than you.

[@alexhutchings4815]

​@@neversarium don't worry both are correct...

[@onlyonewhyphy]

@@neversarium "Cannot" 🖕🏻

[@East10Outpost]

Samesies

[@Worldspire]

Old maps are so cool. Wish we made maps like that today

[@lettybastien4624]

They print old maps all day long in China.

[@kickapootrackers7255]

Always good to see old maps and writings ,Thankya Kindly GG

[@FalconFire4488]

Who else is awake at this ungodly hour? First

[@dmacrolens]

The first comment is always the worst comment.

[@Stephtones-75]

🙋‍♂️

[@sayingthisaboutthat1046]

Thank you for this video. I love old cartography. And a huge shout out to you for giving rare maps attribution!

[@erikm8372]

07:00 I wonder if those African "Monoculi" cyclops stories came about after the discovery of elephant skulls, as has been suggested with Homer’s cyclops, since their skulls can resemble those of a giant human with one eye socket (the trunk)l and tusks resembling large, fearsome teeth.

[@BSWVI]

😮💡🤔 that makes a lot of sense.

[@_SLKK]

European travellers from the past saw the elephants sculls and proclaiming that it belonged to a giants cyclops. They thought that the big hole in the centre of the elephants scull was for a eye...

[@madzen112]

'Can't you, you know, spice it up a bit...?'

[@JoshuaRolen]

One Piece has some Sea Monsters that look like fish birds, and their bird face is the same as a fish bird monster on the sea monster map.

[@AlexanderWeurding]

Thanks!

[@erikm8372]

07:35 I’m guessing those lakes they’re citing as the source of the Nile are Lake Victoria and…? Lake Nakuru? I forget the other large one. Lake Malawi? Although that’s not near where I’m thinking of. I’m thinking those lumpy mountains and "hills" drawn below the two lakes are actually the Rift Valley and Kilimanjaro.

[@theBlankScroll]

The confident incompetence of the early explorers is incredible

[@fffrrraannkk]

I got a good chuckle out of that.

[@yahuahisking5483]

Were they incompetent or have you been misled by those who have rewritten history and maps and everything else??

[@scottbogfoot]

Can you do a video with the premise behind it being, if you wanted to collect and display just one map for each country which historical maps would you choose? You could go through continent by continent. Whsts the most desirable map of , say, France and from what period and for what reasons. Thanks Cheers from Newfoundland! 😊

[@johnsmartin1473]

Cartography was history's mud wrestling partner, 'this must be just like living in nerd paradise, and I...'

[@cpt_nordbart]

Oh hey it's the guy from the 100 Mark bank note. And yes I am that old.

[@scottbogfoot]

2:29what are the calling Newfoundland on this map? Corterili?

[@redstone5062]

Corterealis after the explorer Corte Real.

[@stupidminotaur9735]

Giants are well known from the tip of SA, there's 2 living tribes famous for being tall and some of their members play now professor basketball. 2. christian king in africa Europeans would receive ambassadors from him and they knew his general location, south of Egypt 3. giant lobsters some would grow truly huge in north america

[@leahcimwerdna5209]

Human meat is called Long pork

[@MarcusAgrippa390]

Didn't his descendants have a TV show? The Munsters...

[@lettybastien4624]

Cheese franchise.

[@onemorechris]

these people appear to have a strange mix of skill in navigation, rampant racism, incompetence, maybe? and out and out lying. i guess this far back one would have had to have been a little unhinged to even consider such a journey.

[@onlyonewhyphy]

Is Cyclopie and old word? Never heard it. Is that their collective name?

[@dmacrolens]

Octopii, Cyclopii...

[@greenamber9827]

I'm to pronounce his last name like Herman Munster.

[@bretfisher7286]

A fine essay, but let's not forget that Munster also achieved this great cheese, okay?

[@rocktipus]

That's a leg

[@Uncle_Torgo]

Where be Dragons?

[@Ziorac]

And these are the kind of maps that the Tartarian empire and flat earth believers quote from. Excellent.

[@graciegj63]

Except when they found thousands of human bones longer than 9ft tall in the 1700's and 1800's. All of which the Smithsonian had destroyed and the government put high security around the origin sites.

[@Ziorac]

@@graciegj63 You mean the giant sloth bones? Or the ones that were proven to be hoaxes? Also I didn't mention giants.

[@graciegj63]

@@Ziorac These were definitely human-like. Who proves these things hoaxes? The very government(who hold information from us) you trust? C'mon, lots of different types of people have historical accounts of these things. Nephilim. Anakim(son's of Anak). Red haired giants. And then another thing is that the places these things were found are fenced off and government property.

[@giffica]

Dude looks pretty accurate???? Do you know geography bruh

[@the_nows]

psy-cloppees

[@arnoackermann6584]

cyclopeeeeees - lol

[@GeographyGeek]

@@arnoackermann6584 I swear it’s how you say it lol

[@oliverbodnar]

'Pah'-'tah' Pata