There remains absolutely no indication of who these people might have been, what they called themselves or from which corner of the globe they emerged. The curious fact is not that such maps existed for sixteenth-century cartographers like Piri Reis and Oronteus Finaeus to copy, but that the civilization responsible for them had otherwise vanished without a trace.
To me, the reasoning of Professor Hapgood and his students is perfectly sound: the maps in question appear to indicate that at some point prior to recorded history, Earth was host to an advanced civilization which mapped the entire planet, including Antarctica when its coastlines were free of ice. I don't mind admitting that all the references to spherical trigonometry were beyond me (I'm no mathematician and certainly no cartographer), but I don't think that spoiled the book's overall impression.
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