Archaeologists Find Western World's Oldest Map (500BC)

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11-18-2005 | Hilary Clarke

[blam]

I went looking for a picture of the map and found this. No picture.

New Ancient Map?

[Flavius]

were ox drive cart burning in france then as well

no?

wonder why

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[johniegrad]

Josephus, you should know why.

[Robert A Cook PE]

A bit odd to put that much effort (a map and its settings) into something as small as a postage stamp.

500 years BC, and they are decorating postage stamps?

[Robert A Cook PE]

The Soleto map is a contemporary of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras, who set up a philosophy school in Crotone, now Calabria, on the other side of the Gulf of Taranto.

His hypothesis that the Earth was round, developed after observing that the height of stars was different at different locations and noticing how ships appeared on the horizon, formed the basis of modern map making.

Exaggerated conclusions by the writer. The fact that ONE PERSON figured out part of the puzzle of the round earth didn't everybody (a) either knew about the theory or (b) believed it!

[DoughtyOne]

My wife will admit that if she lived in 400 BC and had access to that map ever since, and was still alive today, she still couldn't read the map.

[coconutt2000]

I bet an alien dropped it...

[Prost1]

Charles Hapgood: "Ancient Sea Kings"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0932813429/102-3128249-5688904?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/6396/lightfall051.htm

Worth looking at...

[fat city]

...is on a piece of black-glazed terracotta vase about the size of a postage stamp.

The real genius will be trying to fold it back up.

[Semi Civil Servant]

Known as the Soleto Stiletto Map, the depiction of Apulia, the heel of Italy's "boot", is on a piece of black-glazed terracotta vase about the size of a postage stamp.

 

[muir_redwoods]

"Archaeologists Find Western World's Oldest Map (500BC)"

I'll bet it's not folded right

[Cicero]

The Ptolemaic system (2nd Century AD) assumes that the earth is a sphere, and that system was widely accepted throughout Europe from ancient times through the middle ages and the Renaissance, until it was replaced by the Copernican system. So I don't know whether peasants knew or cared that the earth was round, but educated people in general did.

[southernnorthcarolina]

I'll bet even back then, the women had to turn it upside down when they were headed south, and the men couldn't refold it properly.

[saquin]

Picture (and accompanying article) found here

[saquin]

Duh, I didn't notice the link I posted (to the Telegraph) was the same one the thread points to. I guess the picture wasn't up yet when the original poster saw the article.

[truth_seeker]

later.

my wife's family comes from Apulia.

[Dustbunny]

Wow, neat, thank you.

[blam]

"Charles Hapgood: "Ancient Sea Kings"

Thanks. I'll probably order that book.