Gold Mine Map Turin Papyrus

World's First Geologic Map Was Far Ahead of Its Time

The stories of the oldest geological map of mankind: The …

The Turin Gold Mine Papyrus is considered mankind's oldest geological map. From a marketing point of view, the name "Goldmine Papyrus", which was applied to the map more than a …

The Turin Papyrus Map, Gold, Myrrh and Punt

The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian treasure map, generally considered the oldest surviving topographical and geological map from the ancient world. It shows the locations of …

The World's Oldest Surviving Geological Map: The …

This papyrus is recognised as the oldest surviving geological map in the world (ca. 1150 BC) and shows the mined gold-bearing quartz veins and the gold-working settlements at the...

Turin Papyrus Map (Illustration)

The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map of gold mines in the Eastern Desert. It is considered to be one of the oldest surviving topographical maps. Made c. 1150 BCE by Scribe-of-the-Tomb Amennakhte, …

The Turin Papyrus Map: The Oldest Surviving African Map Of

Measuring 2.8 meters in length and 0.41 meters in width, the map presents a 15-kilometer segment of Wadi Hammamat, portraying the confluence of wadis, the bekhen-stone …

TURIN PAPYRUS MAP FROM ANCIENT EGYPT

"The map of the gold mines in a Ramesside papyrus at Turin." Cairo Scientific Journal 8 (1914): 41-46. Goyon, G. "Le papyrus de Turin: dit des mines d'or et le Wadi Hammamat."

The gold-mine of the Turin papyrus (avec 4 planches)

They depict a wadi-system running through pink mountains which are declared to contain gold and silver, while a dark hill in their midst is ornamented with a stela of Seti I. Various …

A Gallery of Historical Maps

The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map of gold mines in the Eastern Desert. It is considered to be one of the oldest surviving topographical maps. Made c. 1150 BCE by Scribe-of-the-Tomb Amennakhte, …