Historical Cartography & World Views

Cartography

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


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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]