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Ancient Maps
A collection of ancient maps used by our ancestors to plat and understand their world.
The Great Chain of Being
Natural philosophers of the western classical and medieval periods mapped out the universe in a method known as 'The Great Chain of Being'.
Maguey Plan - Aztec City Map of the 16th Century
The Maguey Plan (Plano en papel de maguey) is the name of a 16th century map of part of a city within the Aztec empire, drawn on paper made of maguey (or agave).
Clay Tablet with a Map of Nippur
This clay tablet, dated 14th-13th century BCE, is a map of the countryside around the city of Nippur, located in the middle of the southern Mesopotamia floodplain, near the modern city of Diwaniyah.