If it was a map Photo would be the most ancient of the Western Europe: Herald of Aragon According to a team of Aragonese investigators, the drawing recorded in a few stones, found several years ago in the excavations of the cave of Abauntz (Navarre), is in fact a map. If this way it was, it would be the most ancient map of Europe...
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Is this a map?
The most remote place of the world
Route Flashes is in the Tibet I see this beautiful map that there has prepared New Scientist where there are indicated the most inaccessible places of the world (in darker color). The most remote point, the place to which more time would be taken in coming, is in the plateau of the Tibet (as it was of supposing) and reaching it it would need...
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Map of the Mesopotamian world
It will be exhibited in an exhibition of British Museum along with other pieces of Mesopotamia to see it in big click here Next November 15 will open in British Museum the exhibition Babylon to him. Myth and reality, in which there will be exhibited several pieces of the Mesopotamian culture. Between them a map will be dated between...
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Ancient maps of Africa
Collection of Northwestern University Map of Paolo Forlani, Venice, 1562, 44 x 60 cm. Northwestern University has put in Internet a collection of 113 ancient maps of Africa, which include a period between 1530 and 1915. They show the progress that took place in the knowledge of the geography of the continent and the advance of...
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Map of Soleto, the most ancient map of the world
There is in a vessel of black terracotta has been discovered in the south of Italy the most ancient map of Occident, dating towards 500 aC. Acquaintance like the Soleto map, represents Apulia, the heel of the "boot" of the Italian peninsula. It appears in a piece of a vessel of terracotta enameled in black...
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