Ancient Map of Egypt and Eastern Libya by Sylvanus, 1511: Nile, Red Sea, Cairo, Alexandria, Strabo annotations Size:A1 (594x841mm) A full colour map like

A full colour map like this is exceedingly rare from the 1500s

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Such features would have been both a practical consideration for travelers and a point of pride for residents of the time

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Ancient Map of Egypt and Eastern Libya by Sylvanus, 1511: Nile, Red Sea, Cairo, Alexandria, Strabo annotations Size:A1 (594x841mm) A full colour map likeTertia Africae Tabula, created by Bernardus Sylvanus in 1511, presents a learned Renaissance vision of Egypt and the Red Sea framed within the classical canon. In this Third Map of Africa, Sylvanus stages an explicit dialogue between Strabo and Ptolemy, layering the settled wisdom of antiquity with the geographical revisions of his own age. The result is among the earliest obtainable cartographic portrayals of substantial portions of Africa, here