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Archaeologists find western world's oldest map
By Hilary Clarke in Rome
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...ap18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/18/ixworld.html
By Hilary Clarke in Rome
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...ap18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/18/ixworld.html
Hopefully there is more.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.