Hakluyt
11-20-2005, 04:02 AM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/18/wmap18.xml
Archaeologists find western world's oldest map
By Hilary Clarke in Rome
(Filed: 18/11/2005)
The oldest map of anywhere in the western world, dating from about 500 BC, has been unearthed in southern Italy. Known as the Soleto 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.
Apart from being the oldest geographical map from classical antiquity ever found, it is the first material proof that the ancient Greeks were drawing maps of real places before the Romans.
Archaeologists find western world's oldest map
By Hilary Clarke in Rome
(Filed: 18/11/2005)
The oldest map of anywhere in the western world, dating from about 500 BC, has been unearthed in southern Italy. Known as the Soleto 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.
Apart from being the oldest geographical map from classical antiquity ever found, it is the first material proof that the ancient Greeks were drawing maps of real places before the Romans.