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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.
The De Virga world map was made by Albertinus de Virga between 1411 and 1415. Albertin de Virga, a Venetian, is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean, also made in Venice. The world map is circular, drawn on a piece of parchment 69.6 cm × 44 cm (27.4 in × 17.3 in). It consists of the map itself, about 44 cm (17 in) in diameter, and ...
Bone artifacts and an ash seam dated to 32,000±1000 BP. [54] Europe: France: 32: Chauvet Cave: The cave paintings in the Chauvet Cave in southern France have been called the earliest known cave art, though the dating is uncertain. [55] Europe: Czech Republic: 31: Mladeč caves: Oldest human bones that clearly represent a human settlement in ...
Cycladic culture (also known as Cycladic civilisation) was a Bronze Age culture (c. 3100–c. 1000 BC) found throughout the islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea.In chronological terms, it is a relative dating system for artifacts which is roughly contemporary to Helladic chronology (mainland Greece) and Minoan chronology (Crete) during the same period of time.
1000 BC—World population: 50,000,000 [3] 1000 BC—Priene, Western Anatolia is founded. c. 1000 BC—Hungarian separates from its closest linguistic relatives, the Ob-Ugric languages. c. 1000 BC—Ancient Iranian peoples enter Persia. c. 1000 BC—Villanovans occupy the northern and western Italy. c. 1000 BC—Phoenician alphabet is invented ...
The Norton tradition is an archaeological culture that developed in the Western Arctic along the Alaskan shore of the Bering Strait around 1000 BC and lasted through about 800 AD. [ citation needed ] The Norton people used flake- stone tools like their predecessors, the Arctic small tool tradition , but they were more marine-oriented and ...
Babylonian Map of the World (flat-earth diagram on a clay tablet, c. 600 BC) Tabula Rogeriana (1154) Psalter world map (1260) Tabula Peutingeriana (1265, medieval map of the Roman Empire, believed to be based on 4th century source material) Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1285; the largest medieval map known still to exist) Map of Maximus Planudes (c ...
Petroglyph Provincial Park, Nanaimo, BC; Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Ontario; Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal, QC; Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park (Kamloops BC) SG̱ang Gwaay (Ninstints) Sheguiandah; Skedans (Koona, K'uuna Llnagaay) Southwold Earthworks; St. Mary Reservoir, Alberta; Strathcona Science Provincial Park; təmtəmíxʷtən ...