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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.
English: Map of Ancient Egypt, showing the Nile up to the fifth cataract, and major cities and sites of the Dynastic period (c. 3150 BC to 30 BC). Cairo and Jerusalem are shown as reference cities. Cairo and Jerusalem are shown as reference cities.
Alexandria was the intellectual and cultural center of the ancient world for some time; capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom: Khito 3rd Rashid: Bolbitine, Bolbitinum, Bolbitinon, Trashit, Rakhit, Rexi: Where Rosetta Stone was found: Ptkheka (Ptkheka) 4th Neith: Tanta: Capital of its nome: Zau
Clear, clean map of major cities and regions of ancient Egypt. Color scheme is the standard listed at the maps wikiproject. I'm happy to make any modifications suggested. Proposed caption In antiquity, ancient Egypt was divided into two lands: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. To the south, it was bounded by the land of Kush, and to the East, the ...
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 ...
Resources used to create the map: Shaw, Ian , ed. (2003) The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press ISBN: 0-19-280293-3. Dr. Peter Der Manuelian , ed. (1998) Egypt: The World of the Pharaohs, Bonner Straße, Köln (Deutschland): Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH ISBN: 3-89508-913-3. Digital Egypt - maps.
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A map of ancient Egypt, with geographic regions and notable cities from the dynastic period. This is a map I had thought about making for several years, because I wanted to be able to have a high resolution map that I could customize. When I finally got around to learning photoshop, I decided to make the map; it took about 3 days.