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The Topock Maze or Mojave Maze, another geoglyph site near Needles, California, covers 18 acres (73,000 m 2) and consists of a series of parallel windrows approximately five feet (1.5 m) apart. [7] However, it is unclear whether the Topock Maze was created by Native Americans.
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 Map of Tendre (Carte de Tendre or Carte du Tendre) was a French map of an imaginary land called Tendre produced by several hands (including Catherine de Rambouillet). It appeared as an engraving (attributed to François Chauveau ) in the first part of Madeleine de Scudéry 's 1654-61 novel Clélie .
The layout of the maze was unusual, as there was no central goal, and, despite the five-metre-high (16 ft) hedges, allowed glimpses ahead. [6] Jean-Aymar Piganiol de La Force in his Nouvelle description du château et parc de Versailles et de Marly (1702) describes the labyrinth as a "network of allées bordered with palisades where it is easy to get lost."
Here’s how he redrew the map of the world. He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32 ...
Chilling video shows a wealthy California businesswoman being chased around her car and then gunned down in a parking lot — in what cops call a “murder-for-hire scheme” orchestrated by her ...
J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.
The Hereford mappa mundi, a map of the world with Jerusalem at its centre. The Hereford Mappa Mundi (Latin: mappa mundi) is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, featuring heaven, hell and the path to salvation.