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L'opera è un compendio allegato alla carta dal medesimo titolo, che racconta le peculiarità ambientali più importanti dell'Isola di San Pietro. Nel libro vengono inoltre raccontati i tratti salienti, della vera storia dei Tabarkini e dei... more
Véritable ‘Strabon français’ pour ses contemporains, Jean-Baptiste d’Anville est considéré comme l’un des plus grands géographes des Lumières. Ce livre, fruit du travail d’analyse d’une dizaine de spécialistes internationaux, fondé sur... more
Preliminary proposal for a show about a Venetian craft, the first map of Africa. The Fra Mauro planisphere is the masterpiece of late middle age cartography. His map is the first to correspond, to match reality as we now know it from... more
Cults in public places for the ruler of the Roman Empire existed in countries beyond the confines of Italy and the provinces. Comparable to the kingdom of Herod the Great, these countries were ruled by allied and dependant kings and... more
Ou "Santa Apolonia the Fourth Island of Mascareignes Archipelago". Le mont sous-marin de "La Pérouse" pourrait il être une réponse à la présence de l'Île de Santa Apolonia sur les portulans, cartes géographiques et nautiques de l'Océan... more
The construction organisation of the Egyptian New Kingdom royal tomb. Sandra Ottens MA. English translation of an article published in Dutch in Ta Mery Magazine 2013.
Besancon est la ville de plus de 100 000 habitants avec la surface d'espaces verts par habitant la plus elevee de France metropolitaine. La foret de Chailluz forme a elle seule pres des 3/4 de sa surface forestiere. Aucune recherche... more
The article presents a short history of research, focusing on the cartographic representations of Roman religion and its material evidence in the 20th century European scholarship of religious studies, Roman archaeology and digital... more
(The Roman amphitheater in Turin. Another unpublished clue identified in a seventeenth-century map).
Pythagoras, when he immigrated to Kroton, literally went from one end of the Greek universe to the other, from Samos (through Delphi) to Kroton with one degree of deviation. Another straight line is found from Delos, the birthplace of... more
Publié le 18 mars 2022 sur https://archeorient.hypotheses.org/17810. Les humains ont observé le ciel depuis des temps immémoriaux. Ils ont construit des observatoires astronomiques afin de caler des calendriers annuels pour... more
The 'Preste' on maps, in prints and manuscripts. Or, of European imprecision, Ethiopian defined geographical representations. An annex to the forthcoming book: Cracking the Fra Mauro code in Central Shewa A Venetian crowd-sourced map... more
Besançon est la ville de plus de 100 000 habitants avec la surface d'espaces verts par habitant la plus élevée de France métropolitaine. La forêt de Chailluz forme à elle seule près des 3/4 de sa surface forestière. Aucune recherche... more
"This paper would add a contribution to the “entangled histories” of the circulation of Sino‐European representations of landscape during the long 18th century. I will discuss a prime example of interaction, interpretation and... more
Par daudznozīmigo latviešu vārdu 'sala', par tā vietu Latvijas vietvārdos vēsturiskā skatījumā, balstoties senās Ļaudonas draudzes (Ļaudonas, Sāvienas, Mētrienas) vietvārdu materiālā no 17. gadsimta līdz mūsdienām. Par vietām, kas nav... more
Reports: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/hFT5nwlr1m7gWXfyP5jasw https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/OnEViBEU30Kr8d6XZTYm2g http://www.cssn.cn/gd/gd_rwhd/gd_zxjl_1650/201806/t20180619_4371614.shtml (6 pages in total including 3 pages of report and 3... more
This contribution proposes a new interpretation of the extant fragment of the land registry from Roman Lacimurga. Based on various passages of the Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum, it is argued that the registry map shows the legal breadth... more
Tracking Earth's past helps us to move from hindsight to foresight in seeking landscape sustainability, a pursuit aided by modern mapping capabilities but hindered by a dearth of historical landscape information. To fill the data gap and... more
The ancient Egyptians imagined the world naturally as a chaotic, dangerous, unjust and evil-smelling environment. The world in its natural state smelled bad. Isfet, the world of chaos and evil, reeked of fish and fowl. The ancient... more
Der Vortrag behandelt zwei wichtige Beschreibstoffe im frühen China, besonders des dritten bis ersten Jahrhunders vor unserer Zeitrechnung, wie sie in den letzten Jahrzehnten bei archäologischen Grabungen entdeckt wurden. (a) Mit Tusche... more
The GIS study of cadastral plans of Mandeure and Mathay (Doubs) has led to the making of geo-referenced maps using different information such as area, orientation, settlement, richness of soil, micro topography. Comparing this information... more
The geographical position of Babadag Lake, south of the Danube Delta, raises the question of its possible connection to Razim Lake. The study of this connection is based on the diachronic analysis of 38 old maps of the analyzed area from... more
Basé sur une analyse des programmes scolaires concernant l’étude des cartes et les compétences à développer par rapport à leur interprétation, cet article propose une méthode d’analyse combinée qui développe la lecture des cartes, définie... more