Add to ORKGAbstract. We reconstructed Ptolemy’s map of ancient West Africa using a modern geographic information system (GIS). Our analysis showed that the relevant information in Ptolemy’s “Geography ” is a compilation of data from three or more sources, including at least one version of the Periplus of Hanno, and that some of the data is apparently redundant. This finding entails more realistic estimates of chances to locate ruins of the lost ancient cities mentioned by Ptolemy. Our reconstruction improves understanding of what West Africa was like in the distant past
La comparaison des toponymes qui apparaissent sur une petite sélection de cartes, datées de 1600 à 1...
Archaeological exploration in the Nile Delta has been confined to a handful of expeditions from rece...
The Carte topographique de l'Égypte, published in 1828 by the French engineer Pierre Jacotin, has al...
Almost two thousand years ago, Claudius Ptolemy created a guide to drawing maps of the world, identi...
A controversial question concerning ancient geography is the location of the prime meridian which un...
A recent study of R. Thouvenot pretends to identify the noticeable points of the Inner Libya sea-sho...
A multitude of the ancient places given by Ptolemy in his <I>Geography</I> (~150 AD) are...
This thesis aims to reconstruct a map of the world drawn by Eratosthenes of Cyrene (ca. 285 – 205 BC...
Pre-Colonial kingdoms in Sub-Saharan Africa were many, and were organized in unique ways. The old Em...
This map appears in another example of the several translations of Ptolemy's Geography. This one, in...
Two coeval 16th century maps of the Po river delta area (Northern Adriatic Sea), both signed by Otta...
Claudius Ptolemy, in his Geographia, gives a list of geographic coordinates of spherical longitude a...
Relief shown pictorially.; Includes illustratons of ships, sea monsters, birds, animals and historic...
International audienceThe focus of my PhD research is the reconstruction of the Nilotic socio-ecosys...
The shape of Africa on Iberian nautical charts of the late-fifteenth and earlysixteenth century is s...
La comparaison des toponymes qui apparaissent sur une petite sélection de cartes, datées de 1600 à 1...
Archaeological exploration in the Nile Delta has been confined to a handful of expeditions from rece...
The Carte topographique de l'Égypte, published in 1828 by the French engineer Pierre Jacotin, has al...
Almost two thousand years ago, Claudius Ptolemy created a guide to drawing maps of the world, identi...
A controversial question concerning ancient geography is the location of the prime meridian which un...
A recent study of R. Thouvenot pretends to identify the noticeable points of the Inner Libya sea-sho...
A multitude of the ancient places given by Ptolemy in his <I>Geography</I> (~150 AD) are...
This thesis aims to reconstruct a map of the world drawn by Eratosthenes of Cyrene (ca. 285 – 205 BC...
Pre-Colonial kingdoms in Sub-Saharan Africa were many, and were organized in unique ways. The old Em...
This map appears in another example of the several translations of Ptolemy's Geography. This one, in...
Two coeval 16th century maps of the Po river delta area (Northern Adriatic Sea), both signed by Otta...
Claudius Ptolemy, in his Geographia, gives a list of geographic coordinates of spherical longitude a...
Relief shown pictorially.; Includes illustratons of ships, sea monsters, birds, animals and historic...
International audienceThe focus of my PhD research is the reconstruction of the Nilotic socio-ecosys...
The shape of Africa on Iberian nautical charts of the late-fifteenth and earlysixteenth century is s...
La comparaison des toponymes qui apparaissent sur une petite sélection de cartes, datées de 1600 à 1...
Archaeological exploration in the Nile Delta has been confined to a handful of expeditions from rece...
The Carte topographique de l'Égypte, published in 1828 by the French engineer Pierre Jacotin, has al...