Oldest Flat Earth Map

They can then choose from a range of dates stretching back to 750 million years ago and observe how the landmasses carrying their. 22:46 edt, 18 june 2011. A similar model is found in the homeric account from the 8th century bc in which okeanos, the personified body of water surrounding the circular surface of the earth, is the begetter of all life and possibly of all gods. the pyramid texts and coffin texts of ancient egypt show a similar cosmograp…

Carved contours that now only hint at a lost landscape from long ago. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries bce still based on the flat earth paradigm. Check out the impressive tabula peutingeriana in its entirety.

In early mesopotamian thought the world was portrayed as a flat disk floating in the ocean, and this forms the premise for early greek maps like those of anaximander and hecataeus.

It currently resides at the national library in vienna, austria. The most influential, called inventio fortunata (translation: Hughes, who ties the name to a 9/11 conspiracy theory, says the real tim ozman is his business partner, jack. In early mesopotamian thought the world was portrayed as a flat disk floating in the ocean, and this forms the premise for early greek maps like those of anaximander and hecataeus.