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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.
Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map. The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt, Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I (r. 1512 ...
Mappae Mundi: Representing the World and Its Inhabitants In Texts, Maps, and Images In Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edmonton: Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta. ISBN 9781551951874. OCLC 227019112. Goffart, Walter (2003). Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570–1870. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Mysterious 5,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge of the East’ is drifting over time, study shows ... Scientists redrew the sky map and aligned the directions of cosmic events like solstices and equinoxes ...
Second-oldest city in Australia. Prior to British settlement, the area had been occupied for at least 8,000 years, but possibly for as long as 35,000 years, [265] by the semi-nomadic Mouheneener tribe, a sub-group of the Nuennone, or South-East tribe. [266] George Town: Tasmania Australia: 1804 AD Third-oldest city in Australia. Newcastle: New ...
Thought to be 5,000 years old, the artefact has four holes, in similar positioning to eyes, a mouth and a navel. ... Tribes features an iconic map named "Scarabrae".
In between the 6,000-year-old mounds, archaeologists identified a parade route. The “processional route” was used about 5,000 years ago as a place “where cattle were sacrificed and people ...
Archaeologists discovered a 4,000- to 5,000-year-old ceremonial temple within a sand dune in Peru. Tucked between the ruin’s walls, the excavation team located burial remains of three humans.