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Portrait of Vincenzo Coronelli.

Tags: Author portraits, Vincenzo Coronelli

Map of the Persian Empire in the era of Darius I.

Tags: Darius I, History, Maps, Persia / Iran, Persian empire

Egypt as described in the second book of Herodotus.

Tags: Ancient Greek historians, Egypt, Herodotus, History, Maps, Nile river, Pyramids, Rivers

Map of the Empire of Cyrus the Great.

Tags: Asia, Cyrus I, History, Maps, Persia / Iran, Persian empire

Map of the places mentioned in Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History.

Tags: Asia Minor, Eusebius of Caesarea, Greece, History, Maps, Religious practices, Turkey

Map of the Eastern Mediterrranean showing the places mentioned in the Old and New Testament.

Tags: Asia Minor, Bible, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Maps, New Testament, Old Testament, Palestine, Religious practices, Syria, Turkey

Map showing the conquests of Demetrius I Poliorcetes.

Tags: Asia Minor, Cyprus, Greece, History, Maps, Turkey

Map showing the retreat of the Ten Thousand according to Xenophon.

Tags: Anabasis, Ancient Greek historians, Asia Minor, Black Sea, History, Maps, Mesopotamia, Turkey, Xenophon

Map of Syria and Assyria according to Claudius Ptolemy and other authors.

Tags: Assyria, History, Maps, Syria

Map of the conquests of Pyrrhus I, according to Plutarch's description.

Tags: Ancient Greek historians, Greece, History, Maps, Plutarch, Pyrrhus I

Map of the campaign of Agesilaus II of Sparta against the Persians, based on the description of Xenophon.

Tags: Agesilaus II, Ancient Greek historians, Asia Minor, Greece, History, Maps, Sparta, Turkey, Xenophon

Map showing the campaign of Alexander the Great, according to Quintus Curtius, Arrian and other historians.

Tags: Alexander the Great, Arabian peninsula, Asia, Greece, History, India, Maps, Persia / Iran, Roman historians, Turkey

Map of Libya according to Herodotus.

Tags: Ancient Greek historians, Herodotus, History, Libya, Maps

Map of Greece and of the Empire of Croesus, according to Herodotus.

Tags: Ancient Greek historians, Asia Minor, Greece, Herodotus, History, Kingdom of Croesus, Lydia, Maps

Map of the late Roman Empire.

Tags: Europe, Greece, History, Italy, Maps, Northern Africa, Roman empire, Spain

Map of Greece according to the description by Cornelius Nepos and other historians.

Tags: Aegean islands, Cornelius Nepos, Crete, Greece, History, Ionian islands, Maps, Roman historians

Map of Europe based on the description by Roman historian Lucan in his “Pharsalia” or “De Bello Civili”.

Tags: Europe, Greece, History, Italy, Maps, Mediterranean sea, Roman empire

Map of the area around Carthage, as described in “De Bello Africo”, an anonymous work frequently attributed to Julius Caesar. Map of Egypt, based on the description contained in "De Bello Alexandrino", an anonymous work frequently attributed to Julius Caesar.

Tags: Carthage, Egypt, History, Julius Caesar, Maps, Roman emperors, Roman empire, Tunisia

The province of Hispania Baetica in southwestern Spain, which was one of the three provinces of the Roman Empire in the Iberian peninsula. Map based on the description found in “De Bello Hispaniensi”, the anonymous work frequently attibuted to Julius Caesar.

Tags: History, Julius Caesar, Maps, Roman emperors, Roman empire, Spain

Map of Gaul, based on the description by Julius Caesar in his "Commentarii de Bello Gallico".

Tags: Gaul, History, Julius Caesar, Maps, Roman emperors, Roman empire

Map of the Roman empire in the era of Julius Cesar, based on the descriptions by Julius Caesar himslef and by Silius Italicus.

Tags: Asia Minor, Greece, History, Italy, Julius Caesar, Maps, Roman emperors, Roman empire, Turkey

Map showing Hannibal's campaign in the Second Punic War, according to the descriptions by Roman historians Livy and Cornelius Nepos.

Tags: Cornelius Nepos, Hannibal, History, Italy, Maps, Roman historians, Second Punic War, Spain, Titus Livy, Tunisia

Map showing the expansion of the Roman state into the Italian peninsula, according to the descriptionvof Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus.

Tags: History, Italy, Lucius Annaeus Florus, Maps, Roman empire, Roman historians

The beginnings of the Roman Empire, according to the description of Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus.

Tags: History, Italy, Lucius Annaeus Florus, Maps, Roman empire, Roman historians

A map of the world as described by Roman historian Justin.

Tags: Asia, Europe, Greece, History, Italy, Justin, Maps, Roman historians, World maps

The voyage of Aeneas from Troy to Rome as described by Dionisius Halicarnasseus in “Roman Archaeology”.

Tags: Aeneas, Asia, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Greece, History, Italy, Maps, Roman mythology, Rome, Turkey

The voyage of Aeneas from Troy to Rome as described by Virgil.

Tags: Aeneid, Asia, Greece, History, Italy, Maps, Roman mythology, Rome, Turkey, Vergil

The navigation of Ulysses from Troy to Ithaca, according to Homer.

Tags: Asia, Greece, Greek mythology, History, Homer, Italy, Maps, Odyssey, Sicily, Southern Italy, Turkey

Greece and Asia Minor in the era of the Trojan War, according to the anonymous works traditionally attibuted to Dictys Cretensis (“Dictys Cretensis Ephemeridos belli Trojani”) and Dares Phrygius (“De excidio Trojae historia”).

Tags: Asia Minor, Greece, Greek mythology, History, Maps, Trojan war, Turkey

Map showing the known world from antiquity to the 15th century.

Tags: Africa, Asia, Europe, History, Maps, World maps

Title page.

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Early Christian inscriptions from Syria.

Tags: Early Christian Monuments, History, Inscriptions, Religious practices, Syria

View of Tyre, Lebanon. Inhabitants of Lebanon in traditional costume.

Tags: Arabs, Architecture and built environment, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Jewellery, Lebanon, Music, Musical instruments, Smoking, Sour / anc. Tyre, Walls, Women

Mount Tabor. View of Nazareth. The coast of the Sea of Galilee.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Equids, Houses, Human types, Israel, Lakes, Mount Tabor, Mountains, Natural environment, Nazareth, Sea of Galilee / Lake Tiberias

Title page of the second volume of the edition.

Tags: Title page

View of Ramla, Israel. View of Bethlehem, Palestine.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bethlehem, Dogs, Equids, Goats, Human types, Israel, Palestine, Ramla, Tents, Travel, Walls

Title page of the first volume of the edition.

Tags: Title page

Death of the author's travelling companion in the desert.

Tags: Animals, Arabian desert, Arabian peninsula, Arabs, Camels, Caravans, Children, Ethnic groups, Horses, John Griffiths, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel

Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Istanbul, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Sultan Ahmed Mosque / Blue Mosque ( Sultan Ahmet Camii), Thrace, Turkey, Views

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Istanbul, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Thrace, Turkey, Views

Map of Europe, the Arabian peninsula and Asia, showing the author's itinerary.

Tags: Arabian peninsula, Asia, Asia Minor, Europe, Greece, India, Maps, Travel, Turkey

Title page.

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Portrait of John Griffiths.

Tags: Author portraits, John Griffiths

Ga'ez, script used in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Tags: Alphabets, Ethiopic alphabet, Ge'ez, Social sphere and everyday life

Ethiopian Christian priest and Ethiopian layman, Jerusalem.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethiopians, Ethnic groups, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Priests, Social sphere and everyday life

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