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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.
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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