Ancient Oldest Map Of The World. The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map generally considered the oldest surviving map of topographical interest from the ancient worldIt is drawn on a papyrus reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes collected by Bernardino Drovetti known as Napoleons Proconsul in Egypt sometime before 1824 AD and now preserved in Turins Museo Egizio. The De Virga world map was made by Albertinus de Virga between 1411 and 1415.
The oldest known world map is the Babylonian Map of the World known as the Imago Mundi. The Anglo-Saxon Cotton world map is the earliest known attempt of depicting the British Isles. The map shows Babylon in the center of a world that extends no further than the edges of Mesopotamia.
The map is only complete in the Mediterranean until around 270 BCE.
The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map generally considered the oldest surviving map of topographical interest from the ancient worldIt is drawn on a papyrus reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes collected by Bernardino Drovetti known as Napoleons Proconsul in Egypt sometime before 1824 AD and now preserved in Turins Museo Egizio. The oldest known world map is the Babylonian Map of the World known as the Imago Mundi. Albertin de Virga a Venetian is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean also made in Venice. Meaning atlas or sheet of the world in Latin the Mappa Mundi is an incredibly detailed 159m-long by 134m-wide map depicting the history geography and religious understanding of the known.
