Historical Cartography & World Views

Cartography

• from the Latin "carta" for map
  • "-graphy" suffix implies "a descriptive science"

Image Gallery

• Images here are from History of Cartography (Wikipedia) and other source files on Wikipedia

Engraving on a mammoth tusk, map, Gravettian, 076872x, probably the oldest surviving map, from 25,000 BC in modern Czech Republic

Clay tablet containing plan of Nippur (Hilprecht EBL 1903)

File:Netert Mudat Scarab Map Face.jpg

Netert Mudat Scarab Map Face

[recreation of the world map of Hecataeus, an ancient Greek historian from Miletus who is known as the "Father of Geography, c 500 BC]

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  a map engraved on a mammoth tusk, c. 25,000 BC, found in modern Czech Republic

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  Clay tablet containing plan of Nippur (Hilprecht EBL 1903)

• Netert Mudat Scarab Map Face

  Netert Mudat Scarab Map Face

• Modern recreation of the world map of Hecataeus, an ancient Greek historian from Miletus who is known as the "Father of Geography, c 500 BC

  Modern recreation of the world map of Hecataeus, an ancient Greek historian from Miletus who is known as the "Father of Geography, c 500 BC

• Modern recreation of the world map of Herotodus, an ancient Greek historian, c 450 BC

  Modern recreation of the world map of Herotodus, an ancient Greek historian, c 450 BC