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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.
9 Oldest Maps in the World. Humans have been making maps for thousands of years and the history of cartography (mapmaking) can be traced all the way back to ancient cave paintings. These early maps depicted the stars and showed how constellations would have looked at the time.
Maps of the Ancient World | Oxford Classical Dictionary. All maps may be downloaded for personal or educational use. The Aegean World in the Bronze Age: Click to view larger. Greek Colonies to 500 BCE: Click to view larger. Early Roman Italy: Click to view larger. Rome's World: Click to view larger. The Roman Empire, 121–31 BCE:
Explore the ancient world in this interactive map. Select a date an see cities, kingdoms and empires rise and fall.
Maps and geography in the ancient world. Greek maps and geography; The Roman period; The Middle Ages; The age of discovery and exploration. Revival of Ptolemy; Maps of the discoveries; 18th century to the present. The rise of national surveys; International Map of the World (IMW) World War II and after
Babylonian Map of the World, clay tablet produced between the late 8th and 6th centuries bce that depicts the oldest known map of the ancient world. Acquired by the British Museum in 1882 and translated in 1889, this tablet depicts a map of known and unknown regions of the ancient Mesopotamian world.
Now, you can zoom around this huge, detailed map of the ancient world labeled with cities from all sorts of archaeological records, classical text references and European imagery.