While I do admit that the latter option is much funnier, it’s probably the former. That or they built all the above-ground rooms perfectly to scale, but didn’t know the exact layout of the service/security tunnels? Idk, but that is definitely an odd choice of wording

Literally every single generation we have records of. Hell, there were ancient Romans (and I mean ANCIENT) who wrote about how their ‘cultural values’ were in decline compared to the older generations. And this was BEFORE Rome was even an empire, this was back in the B.C.E.s

They knew the Earth was round, yes, and I admit they could’ve used wording with a little less ambiguity. I think the best way to look at this is that the map shows what the Romans KNEW was there

Oh no. Anyway