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The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
Included some of the neighbors of Ancient Egypt. 08:45, 18 April 2020: 1,580 × 3,224 (1.59 MB) JLG.Arts: You could get the impression that Aswan and Elephantine were one and the same cities. It's now more visible that they're not the same. 09:12, 6 December 2019: 1,580 × 3,224 (1.56 MB) JLG.Arts: Added some Nubian cities with their ...
Image:BlankMap-World.png – World map, Robinson projection centered on the meridian circa 11°15' to east from the Greenwich Prime Meridian. Microstates and island nations are generally represented by single or few pixels approximate to the capital; all territories indicated in the UN listing of territories and regions are exhibited.
Ancient Egypt was not at all like Europe, where borders changed and kingdoms came and went. Ancient Egypt was pretty rock solid for more than 3 millenia. If it would help, I could specify that the map applies to Dynastic Egypt (Early Dynastic period until the Roman period).
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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.