Image: Herodotus world map-en

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Description: Possibly what the world according to Herodotus looked like (5th century BC).
Title: Herodotus world map-en
Credit: Own work (based on the GIF by Marco Prins and Jona Lendering from www.livius.org, see http://www.livius.org/a/1/maps/herodotus_map.gif, with fixes from http://www.mediterranees.net/geographie/herodote/cartes.html, http://www.meer.org/herodotus-world-map-1a.jpg and http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ancientimages/109A.GIF). Compare this map from The Challenger Reports, 1895.
Author: User:Bibi Saint-Pol
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