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1424 map of Zuane Pizzigano, the first depiction of the island of Satanazes as a large blue rectangular isle north of Antillia.. The island of Satanazes (also called the Island of Devils, or the Hand of Satan) is a legendary island once thought to be located in the Atlantic Ocean, and depicted on many 15th-century maps.
The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map, generally considered the oldest surviving map of topographical interest from the ancient world.It is drawn on a papyrus reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes, collected by Bernardino Drovetti (known as Napoleon's Proconsul) in Egypt sometime before 1824 and now preserved in Turin's Museo Egizio.
The Devil's Island facility was the last to be closed. The cable car system that provided access to Devil's Island from Royale Island deteriorated and Devil's Island is now closed to public access. [clarification needed] It can be viewed from off shore by use of charter boats. The two larger islands in the Salut island group are open to the ...
Island Paradise has just finished up with Archeology Week, and now it has moved on to Ancient Egypt theme. This is a fairly similar theme but has some unique differences such as more gold items ...
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A map of the Generations of Noah, placing the "Pathrusim" in Upper Egypt.. Pathros (Hebrew: פַּתְרוֹס; Paṯrōs; Ancient Greek: Φαθωρῆς, Phathōrēs; Koine Ancient Greek: Παθούρης, Pathourēs) refers to Upper Egypt, primarily the Thebaid where it extended from Elephantine fort to modern Asyut north of Thebes. [1]
Tanis is unattested before the 19th Dynasty of Egypt, when it was the capital of the 14th nome of Lower Egypt. [9] [a] A temple inscription datable to the reign of Ramesses II mentions a "Field of Tanis", while the city in se is securely attested in two 20th Dynasty documents: the Onomasticon of Amenope and the Story of Wenamun, as the home place of the pharaoh-to-be Smendes.
Antirhodos (sometimes Antirrhodos or Anti Rhodes) was an island in the eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, on which a Ptolemaic Egyptian palace was sited. The island was occupied until the reigns of Septimius Severus and Caracalla [1] and it probably sank in the 4th century, when it succumbed to earthquakes and a tsunami following an earthquake in the eastern Mediterranean near Crete in the ...