<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...
Throughout the centuries, the mythical Stone Tower has been a fascinating enigma for geographers, historians, and archaeologists worldwide. This location is mentioned in Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography ...
Marinus of Tyre, the First Geographer to Include China in Roman Maps and Invent the Term “Antarctic”
At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to organize the information and give it a scientific approach. His name was ...
The quest to find the Stone Tower has gained momentum through the ages and, in the process, generated much “spilt ink” – but to what purpose, one might ask? The answer lies at several levels but ...
A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements. Now a team of researchers have cracked the code, ...
Reviewed Work: Researches in Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern-Asia (Further India and Indo-Malayan Archipelago) by G. E. Gerini Review by: H. S. C.
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