[blam]

I went looking for a picture of the map and found this. No picture.

New Ancient Map?

[Flavius]

were ox drive cart burning in france then as well

no?

wonder why

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Robert A Cook PE]

A bit odd to put that much effort (a map and its settings) into something as small as a postage stamp.

500 years BC, and they are decorating postage stamps?

[Robert A Cook PE]

The Soleto map is a contemporary of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras, who set up a philosophy school in Crotone, now Calabria, on the other side of the Gulf of Taranto.

His hypothesis that the Earth was round, developed after observing that the height of stars was different at different locations and noticing how ships appeared on the horizon, formed the basis of modern map making.

Exaggerated conclusions by the writer. The fact that ONE PERSON figured out part of the puzzle of the round earth didn't everybody (a) either knew about the theory or (b) believed it!

[DoughtyOne]

My wife will admit that if she lived in 400 BC and had access to that map ever since, and was still alive today, she still couldn't read the map.

[Prost1]

Charles Hapgood: "Ancient Sea Kings"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0932813429/102-3128249-5688904?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/6396/lightfall051.htm

Worth looking at...

[fat city]

...is on a piece of black-glazed terracotta vase about the size of a postage stamp.

The real genius will be trying to fold it back up.

[Semi Civil Servant]

Known as the Soleto Stiletto Map, the depiction of Apulia, the heel of Italy's "boot", is on a piece of black-glazed terracotta vase about the size of a postage stamp.

 

[muir_redwoods]

"Archaeologists Find Western World's Oldest Map (500BC)"

I'll bet it's not folded right

[southernnorthcarolina]

I'll bet even back then, the women had to turn it upside down when they were headed south, and the men couldn't refold it properly.

[truth_seeker]

later.

my wife's family comes from Apulia.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam! Ostrac-up the band in a salute to this interesting topic. I hope the rest of the chunks are found, just to see if there's a map the entire boot, and Sicily.

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[BlessedByLiberty]

As always, thanks for the ping and another interesting bit of historical knowledge.

Mr. BBL would love a copy of that map, so he would NEVER have to hear me nag him to stop and ask for directions!

[eleni121]

Thanks blam. Great find.

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Eleni

[eleni121]

The Greeks had been in Sicily for thousands of years. They were there between 2,000-1,000 BC in the Bronze age, and left significant Mycenaean influence.