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Thursday, February 18, 2010

When were the First Maps Made?

Simple sketch – maps were probably drawn before people could write , so maps may be older than written history. The oldest surviving map was drawn on a Babylonian tablet about 2300 BC.

An ancient map was found at Gar-Sur, nearly 400 kilometers north of Babylon. It shows mountains and a river (probably the Euphrates) flowing through a delta. Scientific map – making began with the Greeks.

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