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Babylonian Map of the World on Clay
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In the British Museum.
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The oldest known Ships: between 6000 and 5000 B.C.
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From a pre-Egyptian Vase-painting.
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Egyptian Ship of the Expedition to Punt, about 1600 B.C.
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From a Rock-carving at Der el Bahari.
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The Ark on Ararat, and the Cities of Nineveh and Babylon
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From LEONARDO DATI'S Map of 1422.
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A Phoenician Ship, about 700 B.C.
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From a Bas-relief at Nineveh.
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Map of the Voyage of the Argonauts
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The Pillars of Hercules, as shown in a Mediæval Map
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HIGDEN'S Map of the World. 1360 A.D.
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The Pillars of Hercules, as shown in the Anglo-Saxon Map of the World, 10th century
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A Greek Galley, about 500 B.C.
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From a Vase-painting.
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Jerusalem, the Centre of the World
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From the Hereford Map of the World, 13th century.
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A Merchant-Ship of Athens, about 500 B.C.
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From a Vase-painting.
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The Coast of Africa, after Ptolemy (Mercator's Edition), showing Hanno's Voyage
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A Sketch Map of Alexander's Chief Exploratory Marches from Athens to Hyderabad and Gaza
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Alexandria in Pizzigani's Map, 14th century
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North Britain and the Island of Thule
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From MERCATOR'S edition of Ptolemy's Map.
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A Portion of an old Roman Map of the World, showing the roads through the Empire
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From the Peutinger Table.
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The World-Island according to Strabo, 18 A.D.
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Hull of a Roman Merchant-Ship
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From a Roman model at Greenwich.
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A Roman Galley, about 110 A.D.
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From Trajan's Column at Rome.
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The First Stages of a Mediæval Pilgrimage, London to Dover
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From MATTHEW OF PARIS'S Itinerary, 13th century.
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Jerusalem and the East
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From MATTHEW OF PARIS'S Itinerary, 13th century.
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Ireland and St. Brandon's Isle
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From the Catalan Map, 1375.
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The Mysterious Isle of St. Brandon
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From MARTIN BEHAIM'S Map, 1492.
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