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OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain. OpenHistoricalMap collaboratively stores and displays map data throughout the history of the world.
Sep 29, 2023 · Maps of world history arranged in chronological order from pre-history to the present. Each map includes descriptive text followed by a timeline for specific events in the arts economy, politics, religion and science.
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- The Concept of A Library in Antiquity
- Near Eastern Libraries
- Egyptian Libraries
- Greek Libraries
- Roman Libraries
- Byzantine Libraries
Libraries in antiquity were not always designed for the public to freely consult texts or take them off-site as libraries function today, although some did offer this service. Many libraries in the Near East and Egypt were attached to sacred temple sites or were part of an administrative or royal archive, while in the Greekand Roman worlds these ty...
Libraries were a fixture of Near Eastern cities from the second half of the second millennium BCE. The Assyrians, Babylonians, and Hittites all had them, as did Syrian cities like Emar and Ugarit. The texts in them took different forms and could be written on leather scrolls (magallatu), wooden writing boards covered in wax, papyrus, and clay table...
Collections of textual resources similar to modern archives were kept in ancient Egypt from the Old Kingdom onwards, and these included documents regarding cults, sacred texts, magical texts, and administrative records. Egyptian libraries were more than repositories of old texts, though, and were regularly added to with contemporary texts, especial...
Greek libraries continued to be dominated by papyrus scrolls although an indicator that books were now becoming a more common sight outside of institutions is that for the Greeks, the term library could refer both to the place where texts were stored and any small collection of books, now easily available in the 5th-century BCE markets of Athens. O...
The first reference to a library in Rome is the collection of books the general and consul Aemilius Paullus (c. 229 - 160 BCE) brought home after he defeated Perseus of Macedon (c. 212 - 166 BCE) in 168 BCE. This was a model oft-repeated, perhaps most infamously by Sulla's appropriation of Aristotle's library when he sacked Athens in 84 BCE. As in ...
Although the Byzantine Empirepossessed an imperial library and a patriarchal one (headed by the chief bishop) for much of its history and boasted one of the great libraries at Constantinople with its 120,000 scrolls (it burnt down c. 475 CE) generally, in Late Antiquity, public libraries began to disappear in the Roman-Greek world. Books certainly ...
- Mark Cartwright
May 15, 2020 · A presentation of the key elements and some biases in the reading and interpretation of historical maps follows. The main classes of historical maps are described and an overview of different sources (both digital and printed forms) of historical maps is provided.
2. Problem definition Historical maps on the Web On the Web, historical maps are accessible either through the digital catalogues of libraries and museums (e g , Library of Congress) that traditionally preserve them or by digital map libraries (e g , geoportals) Maps are also a basic component in Cultural Heritage Management
Dec 1, 2022 · This Historical Maps guide contains information on how to find maps of various regions and periods throughout history and introduces you to tools to help you create visual representations of historical data using those maps.
The historical map collection has over 131,000 maps and related images online. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, the Pacific, the Arctic, and the World.
