Oldest map in Europe from 500 BC!

[Astronuc]

Archaeologists find western world's oldest map
By Hilary Clarke in Rome
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/18/wmap18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/18/ixworld.html

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. Hopefully there is more.

[marcus]

Archaeologists find western world's oldest map
By Hilary Clarke in Rome
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/18/wmap18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/18/ixworld.html
Hopefully there is more.


neato,

thanks for flagging this!

the map is or seems a terrifically important part of culture to me

just like the greeks

they always wanted to know the geometrical layout
and how far things were,

like Aristarchus in 250 BC reckoning the relative sizes of the sun and moon (from primitive obs.) and coming to the heliocentric realization more than 1500 years before Copernicus

map the earth map the heavens---triangles drawn with a stick in the sand---areas volumes slices----the clear light of the Mediterranean

and this shard of black glazed redline pottery, or is it whiteline: can't decide from the picture