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Early world maps. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period.
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Early world maps – List of early depictions of the world;...
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Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron...
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The earliest known world maps are from the 6th to 5th centuries BC. They show the world in a different and very simple shape. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius led to Ptolemy 's world map (2nd century AD ).
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A T and O map or O–T or T–O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), also known as an Isidoran map, is a type of early world map that represents world geography as first described by the 7th-century scholar Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) in his De Natura Rerum and later his Etymologiae (c. 625)
- Cosmas Indicopleustes' Map (6th century) Around 550 Cosmas Indicopleustes wrote the copiously illustrated Christian Topography, a work partly based on his personal experiences as a merchant on the Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the early 6th century.
- Isidore of Sevilla's T and O map (c. 636) The medieval T and O maps originate with the description of the world in the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (died 636).
- Albi Mappa Mundi (8th century) The Mappa mundi of Albi [fr] is a medieval map of the world, included in a manuscript of the second half of the 8th century, preserved in the old collection of the library Pierre-Amalric in Albi, France.
- Ibn Hawqal's map (10th century) Ibn Hawqal was an Arab scientist of the 10th century who developed a world map, based on his own travel experience and probably the works of Ptolemy.
Map of the Ancient World - World History Encyclopedia. Please note that this is a work in progress! The map is only complete in the Mediterranean until around 270 BCE. << Date: Go. >> Athens. Knossos. Babylon. Susa. Uruk. Tyre. Ugarit. Mycenae. Troy. Nineveh. Assur. Thebes. Memphis. Hierakonpolis. Napata. Kanesh. Hattusa. Tarsus. Jerusalem.
