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The 1907 Ancient Japanese Flat Earth Map Hoax – Jason Colavito.Flat Earth Believers Excited by Likely 1907 Newspaper Hoax Ancient World Map – Jason Colavito.January 11, 1907,, Image 2 – Library of Congress Evening Chronicle claimed the discovery of a lost city beneath Moberly, Mo. In 1912, The New York American alleged that a deathbed confession had spurred Paul Schliemann, grandson of Heinrich Schliemann -the discoverer of Troy & Mycenae- to uncover the lost Atlantis. In 1909, the Arizona Gazette published an article about a Tibetan-style underground civilization found in the Grand Canyon. Several articles in other publications were written similarly.

Publishing a work of fiction written as a journalistic piece -as the Hawaiian Gazette did with the Kobayashi article- was apparently acceptable and somewhat common in the era. The tale & the Kobayashi map spread in flat-Earth communities as a hoax. Flat-Earthers fail to realize it was a work of fiction that was common in the era. In 1907, the Hawaiian Gazette published one of such works titled “Was This World Map Made Ten Centuries Ago,” illustrated with the so-called Kobayashi map, for a more powerful story. However, newspapers of the era often published such works in a way it might not be obvious that these are just works of fiction.

The lost world is a genre of fiction involving the discovery of an unknown world, popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s when the remnants of lost civilizations were being discovered by westerners.

Ancient map of flat earth