Huzaifah ibn Adam
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It is mind-boggling that there are still people in this day and age who believe in Odin and Norse mythology...
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The Tabulus Rogeriana, 13th century, made by Sherif Al Idrisi for King Roger - the Viking King of Sicily - this is the first world map ever made.
Huzaifah ibn Adam said:It is mind-boggling that there are still people in this day and age who believe in Odin and Norse mythology...
Greetings,
That is an amazing image, and I'm curious to know more about it.
If it's from the 13th century, then it's not the earliest world map at all - there are plenty of others as you can see here. Given that Al-Idrisi died in 1165, and that the Tabula Rogeriana shown in that article looks different to the image above, what exactly are we looking at here?
The data from this map was used for 300 year approx and no nation could out do such a monumental work for those three centuries.
That on had the coast of Antartica mapped - a VERY VEEEEERY long time before satellite tech could accurately map the iced coasts of the southern land mass.
Th question remains - how did they achieve such a work?
I love cartography.
Scimi
Obviously a penguin told them..... ;D
It shows just how far we have come.
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