In what year for ships invented that you can factually proove?

Question

My friend says he thinks there were boats that could sail around the world 10,000 years ago to find the lost city of Atlantis. I'm asking this beacause he says there was a city of Atlantis and keeps trying to prove it but there is no proof, he said people from other continents spoke of the island or whatever it was but with out boats how would they do that?

Can you tell me what year they had them not where they were from seeing as though I just explained how I was trying to figure out how long ago they existed Duh

Answer 1

The first ships were sailboats from Mesopotamia.

Answer 2

Early Sumerian texts, as well as Egyptian texts tell of ships at least 5,000 years ago. Since these are the earliest known writings that can be deciphered, that's as far back as you can factually prove. But, you've got to assume that the technology previously existed since they didn't just up and start building boats one day, and I'm not sure if these would've exactly been able to sail all over the world. Some of these Sumerian texts also make reference to the legend of the Ark which would've pre dated the tablets by several hundred years.

Answer 3

In 1947, Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl proved that trans-pacific (the longest single-ocean crossing) travel was possible in some very small crafts, and that pre-Columbus travel between South America and Polynesia was possible (if not likely).

Many cultures have myths/legends of a city/civiliation lost beneath the waves; this seems to be evidence of receding/advancing sea levels (including but not limited to melting glaciers of the ice age), and a universal sense of an earlier "ideal" or advanced society that has been lost.

Evidence for Atlantis is nada, and will likely remain so.

Answer 4

Look in sacred text. com for Piri Reis map. It is from the middle ages but shows the world as it would have been 10,000 yrs ago. It was a copied thru time and gives pretty good proof that the world was being travelled that long ago.