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<\/a><\/a><\/a>Armenia on ancient maps – Babylonian clay tablet, 6th century BC<\/p><\/div>\n
British Museum, London<\/em><\/p>\n The world according to Herodotus. Edited by Charles Muller, published in the Smith’s atlas. Armenia has a central position among the countries that existed at that time.<\/p>\n Armenia on ancient maps – Herodotus, 5th century BC<\/p><\/div>\n Smith’s atlas, British Museum, London, 1874<\/em><\/p>\n Reconstructed map of Eratosthenes by German cartographer von Spruner (1855).<\/p>\n Armenia on ancient maps – Eratosthenes, 3-2 century BC<\/p><\/div>\n Rouben Galichian’s personal collection, now in Matenadaran<\/em><\/p>\n Based on Strabo’s work, the British cartographer John Murray reconstructed the world map, one of the chapters of which is dedicated to the geography of Armenia.<\/p>\n Armenia on ancient maps – Strabo, 1st century BC<\/p><\/div>\n Edited by\u00a0Charles Muller.<\/em><\/p>\n Famous Greek geographer and cosmologist Claudius Ptolemy was the most prominent cartographer in the ancient world. His most important work is the eight-volume Geography. The text about Armenia in this work is in the fifth volume.<\/p>\n This is a map of the world, surrounded by winds and divided into climate zones. Besides the Red Sea, all the seas are blue and the mountain are green. The Greater Armenia and The Lesser Armenia are located between the Black and Caspian Seas.<\/p>\n Armenia on ancient maps – Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century)<\/p><\/div>\n The map was designed by Martin Waldseem\u00fcller and issued by Schott in 1513.<\/em><\/p>\n British Museum, London<\/em><\/p>\n The center of the map in white is the Greater Armenia (Armenia Maior), which borders with Media in the east, with Assyria in the south, Lesser Armenia in the west (Armenia Minor), and Colchis (Abkhazia), Iberia (Virk), Albania in the north.<\/p>\n Armenia on ancient maps – Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century)<\/p><\/div>\n Reissued by Nicolaus Germanus, 1482<\/em><\/p>\n British Museum, London<\/em><\/p>\n This map is one of the pages of the Atlas published in Latin in Amsterdam. It represents Alexander the Great’s invasion of India. The map shows the Greater Armenia.<\/p>\n Countries occupied by Alexander the Great<\/p><\/div>\n Abraham Ortelius, 1595<\/em><\/p>\n British Library, London<\/em><\/p>\n The map covers the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, and the prominent Eden, located near the city of Babel (Babylon). The beautifully decorated title is surrounded by pictures of scenes of Eden on both sides. The map itself is stunningly created, with the combination of real and biblical geography. Here you will find the Land of Nod, the Garden of Eden, the Tower of Babel, and other semi-mythical places. The map was drawn by Visscher as a part of a five-part series of maps to be included in Abraham Van den Brock’s Bible written in 1657. This is the first edition of this important series of maps that formed the basis of many other Bible maps that appeared in the 18th century.<\/p>\n Armenia on ancient maps – Map of the Holy Land or the “Earthly Paradise”<\/p><\/div>\n Nicolaes Visscher, 1657<\/em><\/p>\n This map was drawn by English cartographer Emanuel Bowen. It is also based on religious beliefs. The Terrestrial Paradise, Eden, is shown on the territory of Armenia, between the lakes Van and Kaputan. The map lists four rivers flowing from the Bible Paradise: Aras (Gihon), Pishon, Euphrates and Tigris. At the center of the map is Mount Ararat.<\/p>\n2. Herodotus, 5th century BC<\/h3>\n
<\/a>3. Eratosthenes, 3-2 century BC<\/h3>\n
<\/a>4. Strabo, 1st century BC<\/h3>\n
<\/a>5. Claudius Ptolemy, 2nd century<\/h3>\n
<\/a>6. Claudius Ptolemy, 2nd century<\/h3>\n
<\/a>7. Countries occupied by Alexander the Great<\/h3>\n
<\/a>8. Map of the Holy Land or the “Earthly Paradise”<\/h3>\n
<\/a>9. Map of the Terrestrial Paradise<\/h3>\n