Egyptian Ancient Map. Some claim that it closely resembles modern maps of North and South America, including detailed coastlines and geographical features that should have been impossible for ancient Egyptians to know. An ancient Egyptian map drawn on a scroll of papyrus paper was discovered between 1814 and 1821 by agents of Bernardino Drovetti, the French Consul General in Egypt
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Some claim that it closely resembles modern maps of North and South America, including detailed coastlines and geographical features that should have been impossible for ancient Egyptians to know. Cairo and Jerusalem are shown as reference cities.
According to various sources, the map in question was found within a sealed tomb, inscribed on papyrus or carved into stone The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map that is generally considered to be the oldest surviving topographical and geological map of the ancient world - there are some older maps from outside Egypt, thought these have been described as rather crude, and more abstract in comparison with the Turin Papyrus Map The ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaton, also called Tell el-Amarna or Amarna, was the capital city built by Pharaoh Akhnaton.
. An ancient Egyptian map drawn on a scroll of papyrus paper was discovered between 1814 and 1821 by agents of Bernardino Drovetti, the French Consul General in Egypt Map of ancient Egypt, showing the major cities and archaeological sites along the Nile River, from Abu Simbel in the south to Alexandria in the north .
. The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map, generally considered the oldest surviving map of topographical interest from the ancient world.It is drawn on a papyrus reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes, collected by Bernardino Drovetti (known as Napoleon's Proconsul) in Egypt sometime before 1824 and now preserved in Turin's Museo Egizio. Some claim that it closely resembles modern maps of North and South America, including detailed coastlines and geographical features that should have been impossible for ancient Egyptians to know.