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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 ...
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 ...
Ancient Near East 1000 BC. Ancient Near East 900 BC. Ancient Near East 800 BC ... German. Basic map. Alter Orient 2600 BC. Alter Orient 2500 BC. Alter Orient 2400 BC ...
The Babylonian World Map, the earliest surviving map of the world (c. 600 BC), is a symbolic, not a literal representation. It deliberately omits peoples such as the Persians and Egyptians, who were well known to the Babylonians. The area shown is depicted as a circular shape surrounded by water, which fits the religious image of the world in ...
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 ...
Map of the world in 50 BC. Name Capital(s) State type ... 1000 BC – 300 AD: ... 2000 BC – 900AD: Americas: Central Zapotec: Various: Kingdom city states: 700 BC ...
This quite basically presents the known world in its real geographic appearance which is visible in the so-called Vatican Map of Isidor (776), the world maps of Beatus of Liebana’s Commentary on the Apocalypse of St John (8th century), the Anglo-Saxon Map (ca. 1000), the Sawley map, the Psalter map, or the large mappae mundi of the 13th ...