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...
to read more»
Posts Tagged ‘maps‘
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...
to read more»
The room of the rare books
It includes 400 scanned ancient books Four books of Architecture, of Palladio The web site The room of the rare books or Rare Book Room puts at the disposal of the Net users about 400 books scanned in high resolution. It is a question of "rare" works for the difficulty that the common one of the readership has of gaining access...
to read more»
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...
to read more»
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...
to read more»
If you came so far without finding for what you were looking, you can continue your search in Google:




