Posted on 04/23/2016 11:54:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Not sure how they managed to disconnect the upper Nile from the Nile, proper, though...
All in all, still amazing -- for a "flat world" map -- drawn over a milennium ago...
Where did you find it?
Of course! Everyone knows the proper way to "orient" a map is to put the Holy Land, which is, after all, "the Orient" at the top.
You wouldn't put where God himself touched the earth anywhere else would you???
I think these caves were just an elementary school classroom for the paleolithic kids — and around late November, they had to trace their hands like this. They just didn’t have Thanksgiving yet, or turkeys.
Hiberia is near Mesopotamia and Babilonia. On the other hand Hibernia, and Brittannia with Lundona are in the lower left hand corner. There are many places correctly near one another but other seriously out of place. Europe is seriously undersized out of position relative to Turkey The map would make more sense to modern eyes if it were rotated 90 degrees to put Ireland and Briton in the upper left hand corner. Is this a complete work, or someone’s attempt to reassemble fragments? Who created this?
Turning it 90 degrees clockwise (n at the top) makes it look, well, okay by the standards of when it was made, apart from putting Hiberia and Campagna up against Mesopotamia. OTOH, the names may just have been similar and their use for those areas fell out of fashion. In the classical world, the Erythraean Sea was the Indian Ocean, plus its inlets like the Persian Gulf and Red Sea — but there was a small Aegean Island called Erythraea at the same time.
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