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Explainer: What is Persian Gulf Day and what are its origins and significance?

Press TV 29 Apr 2024
Persian Gulf is a strategic waterway, surrounded by eight regional countries, known as the world’s largest reservoir of oil and gas ... One of the world’s ... It also appeared in world maps sketched by them.
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History of Maps: From Ancient Artifacts to Modern Marvels

Ancient Origins 31 Mar 2024
To understand the history of maps is to understand mankind’s love of exploration and to understand its place in the world ... (Zde/) Maps of the Ancient World ... A close-up view of the Babylonian map of the World ... The Ptolemy Map ... Mercator 1569 world map.
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The world’s earliest printed map is on sale — for £5m pounds

The Times/The Sunday Times 29 Feb 2024
This includes what is believed to be the first modern, formally printed map, published in 1475 in the first edition of the Rudimentum novitiorum (a chronicle of the world) ... World map from the medieval Arabic Book of Curiosities.
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How Did People Make Maps Before Satellites Were Invented?

IFL Science 28 Jul 2023
He used a grid system – similar to the one we see on modern maps – that divided the world into parts ... Combined, all these features produced a far more sophisticated map that offered a detailed representation of the world.Ptolemy’s world.
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Uniting cultures: Sharjah and Seoul unite to explore centuries of history on a remarkable voyage

Hindustan Times 19 Jun 2023
Among them is a miniature copy of Ptolemy's world map, dating back to 1547, revealing detailed geographical insights. Equally captivating was a 1680 map of the Ottoman Empire by Frederick de Wit.
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Rare maps, books showcase shared history of Arab, Asian civilisations at Seoul Book Fair

Gulf News 18 Jun 2023
Among them is a miniature copy of Ptolemy’s world map, dating back to 1547, revealing detailed geographical insights. Equally captivating was a 1680 map of the Ottoman Empire by Frederick de Wit.
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Turkiye through the ages

The News International 03 Jun 2023
With a literary sense matching his military genius, the sultan’s vast library had – apart from Homer’s Iliad and Ptolemy’s ancient world map – books on religion, astronomy and sciences authored by the greatest names of those times.
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Archaeologists uncover Pictish inscribed stone in Scotland

Heritage Daily 02 Nov 2022
Picts are assumed to have been the descendants of the Caledonii and other Iron Age tribes, mentioned by Roman historians or on the world map of Ptolemy ... Image Credit . Murray Cook ... The ogham reflects the influence of Irish Christians.”.
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