19 November 05
Long Before GIS
People were still making maps. News of the discovery of the oldest map in the Western world was just announced. This map is on a bit of a terracotta vase found in an archeological dig about two years ago in southern Italy. The fragment depicts the region of Apulia, and dates from about 500 BC. The script on it is ancient Greek, and it is the first ancient Greek map predating the Romans that has ever been found.
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