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HISTORY MAP ARCHIVE
Browse the Map Archive
The art and history of cartography, aka mapmaking,
goes back to ancient times.
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The oldest maps found so far date from
about 2300 BC and were created by the Babylonians, who drew their
maps on clay tablets.
The Egyptians, too, were
busy mapmakers.
All these maps were focused on
specific areas of the world.
It took the philosophizing
Greeks to get us maps of the entire world, maps of the earth and the
globe.
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Or at least what they thought it could look like.
The Map Archive
This map collection is
indexed chronologically and by continent.
And here is
Herodotus'
Map of the World.
MAP OF THE WORLD -
HERODOTUS
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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