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It was good to have a safe map in long way thought sends and mountains. Often, the way of caravan, situation of oazis in desert caravane guids shared and passed knoleges from generation to generation by word of mouth. But there were people, which could excellent measure the passed way and take sides of world bearings, and, the most important, they could mark the way on map.
Here we offer you to look at asia by eyeses ancient mapmaker and observe it thought centures.

Asia and Taprobana (1598 copy from a 12th century MS)	Arabia Abraham Ortelius	Madaba Mosaic Map Palestine, 565 A.D.

Clay Tablet map from Ga-Sur 2,500 B.C.	Herodotus	The world according to Eratosthenes ca. 220 B.C

World map according to Posidonius (150-130 B.C.)	Tabula Peutingeriana, detail: Mesopotamia (1598 copy from a 12th century MS)	Tabula Asiae XI (Southeast Asia)

Richard Blome 1670	Nona Asiae Tabula 1507 Bernardus Venetus de Vitalibus	Tabula Asia VII 1548 Giacomo Gastaldi

Asia, Partim Orbis Maxima 1593 Gerard De Jode	Babylon 1829

Unknown author 1580(?)