A 16th-century reproduction print of Ptolemy’s map is displayed alongside stone tools unearthed at Pulau Ubin. These prehistoric adzes possibly date back 3,000 to 5,000 years.

While no Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy’s atlas Cosmographia survive, reconstructions of his maps from the 13th century onwards consistently refer to Sinus Persicus (Persian Gulf in Greek).

A map of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. Credit: rowanwindwhistler talk, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-4.0 The Ptolemies also thought highly of the Museum and Library at Alexandria, so they patronized ...

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very ...

The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience the world around us.

The Sulaiman-Too Mountains in Kyrgyzstan are another candidate site. Credit: A. Savin / Wikimedia Commons However, he only mentions its coordinates once, placing it at latitude 43 and longitude 135 in ...

An exact map of ancient India is hard to trace, and the possibilities are nil due to the absence of any maps. However, the detailing of boundaries through edicts, paintings, and written texts gives us ...

Home Architecture Ptolemy Dean: The magic that happens when you stop to draw a place, instead of just taking a photograph A new book examines the streetscapes of our historic towns and marvels at what ...

Ptolemy’s manuscript on an instrument called meteoroscope The effort to decipher this ancient Ptolemy manuscript was the culmination of over 200 years of work by various researchers. This was because ...

Some archaeologists speculate that Wari-Bateshwar was once the city of Sounagoura, an ancient trade center included by the scholar Ptolemy on a map in his second-century A.D. work Geography, seen ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...