Showing posts with label LateAntiquity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LateAntiquity. Show all posts
2018-11-05

Mind's Eye Has Been Published

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When were family-tree diagrams invented? My new book, Mind's Eye: How One Ancient Latin Invented Our Way to Visualize Stories , uncover...
2018-09-18

Drawing the Madaba Map

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The Madaba Mosaic Map in Jordan has never, to my knowledge, been reproduced and published to modern scholarly standards, frustrating my eff...
2018-09-17

Royal Gift

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It may rate as the grandest facsimile atlas of all time: the Monumenta Cartographica Africae et Egyptiae of Prince Youssouf Kamal of Egypt...
2018-08-01

New Edition of the Tabula Peutingeriana

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The Tabula Peutingeriana is a UNESCO Memory of the World treasure which is the nearest thing to a Roman road-map still in existence.  Today...
2018-05-07

This Oldest Map is a Beauty

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The oldest surviving Latin diagram of the world was rediscovered by accident in the Vatican Library in the 1920s. Youssouf Kamal (1882-1965)...
2017-10-27

Squeezing Secrets from the Peutinger Diagram

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Do all roads lead to Rome? Not with the Peutinger Diagram. In neither sense of the phrase. In Africa as depicted on this extraordinary lat...
2017-09-07

Fresh Life for Roman Map

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The most famous map in the world is the Tabula Peutingeriana , a Roman chart of roads and seas. In 2007, UNESCO placed it on its Memory of ...
2017-05-09

Moovel Mash-up

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A little over a year ago, the remarkable Roads to Rome map of Europe was published by researchers at Germany-based Moovel Labs. It's an...
2017-03-20

Did Classical Rome Invent the Scala Diagram?

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Some weeks ago , this blog reported the first appearance online of a major legal-history manuscript in Rome, the Tractatus Vaticanus or Vat...
2017-03-16

Exposing the Peutinger Diagram

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I recently announced a project to study how the late antique Peutinger Diagram was made. This reverse engineering project is comparable to l...
2017-02-01

The Tractatus Vaticanus

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If the part of human cognition which you find most fascinating is visualization of ideas, you're bound to have asked yourself when human...