brehs here posting that fraud al-biruni
al-biruni lived in 1000 AD, and he was heavily influenced by greco-roman thinking
The greeks came up with the propaganda of a spherical earth during 600 BCE..
During 48 BCE, Julius Caesar burned down the library of Alexandria in Egypt which contained proof that the Earth was flat from actual ancient civilizations
From the historical scraps that we have left:
Imago Mundi Babylonian map, the oldest known world map, 6th century BC
Babylonia
The Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts of ancient Egypt show a similar cosmography; Nun (the Ocean) encircled nbwt ("dry lands" or "Islands").
literally every ancient civilization believed in a flat earth, except the greeks and romans
it is in the interest of western hegemony, to keep up this greco-roman facade in order to show that they were inheritors of the most enlightened civilization