It certainly makes Climate Change look even worse than we thought: back then, all of Australia was under ice and snow, because it was part of Antarctica!
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So the artist drew from a story told by someone who had heard a story told by someone who had actually seen the Pyramids at Giza?
The little dormer window is a neat touch!
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The pyramids pictured really look like Nubian Pyramids, which outnumber Egyptian ones.
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He looks very motivating.
I wonder if he can breath with that collar crushing his huge neck.
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That is fascinating…thanks! I’ve been as far south in modern-day Egypt as possible (armed guards at all times, you’re flown in and taken back out again before lunch…too many terrorist camps just over the border into the Sudan, which is basically within spitting distance of places like Abu Simbel) and did not notice such a difference in the pyramid styles there.
But I have to say: the artist himself claimed in the title that he was depicting the Great Sphynx at Giza. Talk about a world-weary traveler, to get it so wrong! He should have just bought a few postcards instead. 
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So cool. Obviously map-making skills in those days weren’t up to modern standards, but it still suggests that an AWFUL LOT of land has been filled in to make what we now think of as the Netherlands!
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Why is it red?
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