2nd century Greco-Roman map of the world From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids. Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your ...
Researchers have recently managed to decipher the manuscript of the ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy 200 years after its discovery. The manuscript is thought to have been written ...
On the side of the coin on the left is the head of a man facing right, wearing the skin from an elephant's head, trunk turned up and tusks protruding out, small dots surround the border. The other ...
On the side of the coin on the left is a man's head facing right, with long curly tendrils of hair held in place with an ornamental headband, small dots surround the border. The other side of the coin ...
A more accurate first attempt at a map was by Claudius Ptolemy. He located towns with the help of documents and by speaking with travelers. He put his findings on paper on a system of longitude ...