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Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
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For old maps in general, see Category:Old maps en:Category:History maps Subcategories This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total. Maps of the world in the 17th century (3 F) Maps of the world in the 18th century (7 F) Maps of the world in the 16th century (1 C, 3 F) Maps of the world in the 19th century (1 C, 30 F)
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More commonly known as the Babylonian Map of the World, the Imago Mundi is considered the oldest surviving world map. It is currently on display at the British Museum in London. It dates back to.
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The Imago Mundi. (Credit: Gary Todd/Wikimedia Commons) The earliest known attempt to show the Earth in its entirety was the Imago Mundi, or Babylonian map of the world, thought to date to around 600 B.C. The city of Babylon itself figures as a large rectangle, bisected by another rectangle representing the Euphrates River.
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9 Oldest Known World Maps People have been making maps for thousands of years, but for millennia maps depicted only the stars or regional areas. World maps, or maps that showed the known world at the time, did not start to appear until people began exploring beyond their homes.
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8. Eratosthenes' Map Year Created: c.276 - c.195/194 BCE Country of Origin: Ancient Greece Creator: Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist Eratosthenes Materials Used: Ink and parchment Area Depicted: An improved map of the known world at the time to the ancient Greeks photo source: Wikimedia Commons
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1. The Babylonian World Map VCG Wilson/Corbis/Getty Images Babylonian map of the world. History's earliest known world map was scratched on clay tablets in the ancient city of Babylon.
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Early world maps The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period.
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This atlas was the first published book of cartography, consisting of the way the world's geography was known around the time of the 2nd century. Maps and manuscripts were written by hand at the time. Geographia's earliest surviving publications date back to 1475.
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Interactive Maps Map of the Ancient World This interactive political map by World History Encyclopedia offers a large-scale overview of the ancient world across all time periods. Choose a date and see what the world looked like. It focuses on the Mediterranean, but also covers other parts of the world. Note: This is a work in progress!
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Welcome to OpenHistoricalMap! OpenHistoricalMap is a project designed to store and display map data throughout the history of the world. This is a work in progress, we'll be playing around with many new features as we time-enable the site. We encourage you to start playing around and editing data, too.
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List of historical maps The following is a list of notable extant historical maps . Early world maps Babylonian Map of the World (flat-earth diagram on a clay tablet, c. 600 BC) Tabula Rogeriana (1154) Psalter world map (1260) Tabula Peutingeriana (1265, medieval map of the Roman Empire, believed to be based on 4th century source material)
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Dating all the way back to the 6th century BCE, the Imago Mundi is the oldest known world map, and it offers a unique glimpse into ancient perspectives on earth and the heavens. While this is the first-known interpretation of such a map, it would certainly not be the last.
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Free old maps online for locations around the world pdf. Historic maps Europe, Asia, Africa, the Pacific, Latin America. Big map collections. Africa Maps The Perry-Castaneda collection at University of Texas at Austin Libraries. This large collection contains mostly political, reference, and topographical maps produced by the U.S. CIA.