shravya: Ancient Maps

shravya: Ancient Maps

Babylonian Imago Mundi 

The oldest known world map.

It is surrounded by a circular landmass showing Assyria, Urartu and several cities, in turn surrounded by a "bitter river" (Oceanus), with seven islands arranged around it so as to form a seven-pointed star. The accompanying text mentions seven outer regions beyond the encircling ocean.

Anaximander

Anaximander was credited with having created one of the first maps of the world, which was circular in form and showed the known lands of the world grouped around the Aegean Sea at the center. This was all surrounded by the ocean.

Hecataeus of Miletus 

Based on Anaximander's map ,he corrected and  enlarged.

Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes  drew an improved world map, incorporating information from the campaigns of Alexander the Great and his successors.Asia became wider, reflecting the new understanding of the actual size of the continent. Eratosthenes was also the first geographer to incorporate parallels and meridians within his cartographic depictions.

Posidonius

Posidonius  ideas about the positions of continents (many details couldn't have been known by Posidonius )

Strabo

Strabo is mostly famous for his 17-volume work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known to his era. , he claimed that a descriptive approach was more practical. Whole world maps according to Strabo are reconstructions from his written text.

 Pomponius mela 

 Pomponius divided the earth into five zones, of which two only were habitable, he asserts the existence of antichthones, people inhabiting the southern temperate zone inaccessible to the folk of the northern temperate regions due to the unbearable heat of the intervening torrid belt.

Ptolemy

The Ptolemy world map is a map based on the description of the world contained in Ptolemy's book Geographia, , the Geographia contains thousands of references to various parts of the old world, with coordinates for most, which seem to have influenced early Islamic maps, and allowed European .

Tabula Peutingeriana

The Tabula Peutingeriana (Peutinger table) is an itinerarium showing the cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire.

Marinus of Tyre

Marinus   of Tyre. His chief legacy is that he first assigned to each place a proper latitude and longitude; he used a "Meridian of the Isles of the Blessed(Canary Islands or Cape Verde Islands)" as the zero meridian