(Original: 1985 - Last updated 22 September 2023)
Select the green underlined number on the left to read the associated monograph
Monographs
100 Earliest known map, a town plan from Catal Hyük, 6,200 B.C.l00A Clay tablet from Ga-Sur, 2,300 B.C.
100.2 Saint Belac stone slab, 2100 B.C.
101 Mesopotamian city plan, Nippur District, 1,500 B.C.
102 Turin Papyrus, 1,300 B.C.
103 Babylonian day tablet, world picture, 500 B.C.
104 Time Chart of Historical Cartography: Antiquity, 600 B.C. to A.D. 300 (Raisz)
105 Ancient Greek views of the earth, reconstructed from description in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
106 Three views of the earth from ancient Greece: Thales of Miletus, Anaximander, and Hecatæus (reconstructions)
107 Anaximenes of Miletus, world map, 610-546 B.C. (reconstruction)
108 Hecatæus’ world map, circular disk, 500 B.C. (reconstructions)
109 Herodotus’ world map, 450 B.C. (reconstructions)
110 Ephorus’ Parallelogram, 350 B.C. (reconstruction)
111 Dicæarchus of Messana, a world map, 300 B.C. (reconstruction)
111.1 Qin Maps, 239 B.C.
112 Eratosthenes’ world map, 170-190 B.C. (reconstruction)
112.1 Han Maps, 168 B.C.
113 Crates’ globe, 180-150 B.C. (reconstructions)
113.1 Ancient Chinese
world view, from the Chhin-Ting Shu Ching T’u Shuo, 138 B.C.
114 Posidonius’ world map, 150-130 B.C. (reconstruction, Bertius, 1630)
115 Strabo’s world map, A.D. 18 (reconstructions)
116 Pomponius Mela’s world map, A.D. 37-42 (reconstruction)
117 Dionysius Periegetes’ world map, A.D. 124 (reconstructions)
118 Agrippa’s Orbis Terrarum, A.D. 100 (reconstructions)
119 Claudius Ptolemy
120 Tabula Peutingeriana, A.D. 100
121 Masada Map of Palestine
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