[Palter]

The researchers appear, for example, to have accurately located three particularly important Germanic sites, known to Ptolemy as "Eburodunum," "Amisia" and "Luppia." The new calculations put these sites at the present day cities of Brno, Fritzlar und Bernburg (Saale), all places already possessing unusually distinguished recorded histories.

A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements. Now a team of researchers have cracked the code, revealing that half of Germany's cities are 1,000 years older than previously thought.

[Palter]

Map, ping.

Not to be confused with these accurate Maps.

[bunkerhill7]

Berlin Researchers Crack the Ptolemy Code

A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements.

Now a team of researchers have cracked the code, revealing that half of Germany's beer gardens are 1,000 years older than previously thought.

The other half are still sleeping it off.

[Sacajaweau]

I'm an old map freak. My last dissertation began with: "They all have secrets and those secrets are shown on the map and are also held elsewhere by the author." The problem is tracking the original notes of the original author.

A fascinating field.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Welthauptstadt Germania

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The more we learn, the more we see that ancient civilizations that we have forgotten were vibrant and relatively “advanced.” “Germany” during Roman times is portrayed as a bunch of savage tribes scratching in the dirt for a living when they aren’t invading Roman territories. We see from this they were more of a society than we thought. I suspect this may allow historians to continue piecing together that there was a rudimentary, interconnected German society on Rome’s border.

Its drummed into our heads to respect other cultures yet some our worst arrogance, from a cultural perspective, is to not respect just how much our own ancestors had developed their own societies.

[pappyone]

later

[SunkenCiv]

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[Domestic Church]

Dare I ask what all that brown stuff represents?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Our ancestors' lack of education is to blame for this dearth of knowledge.

Can you thatch a roof, make butter, kill boars, tan leather, tell a food plant from a poison plant?

[zeugma]

Excellent find. Fascinating.