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Planisphere Keychain✨

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Ancient Sumerian Star Map Reveals Cataclysmic Asteroid Impact

MORE INFO / REGISTER By Derek Olson Over 150 years ago, this ancient Sumerian star map was found by Henry Layard in a subterranean library in Nineveh. Ever since its discovery, scholars had been puzzled to learn its meaning, until computer software in 2008 finally allowed for the Cuneiform clay tablet to be translated, which revealed the oldest documented observation of an asteroid impact to…

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▪︎ Planisphere.

Place of origin: Japan

Date: late 17th century

Medium: Bronze

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Mappamondo di Fra Mauro

[1450 circa - 230 x 230 cm circa - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia]

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Michal Turtle & Suso Saíz - Static Journeys  https://planisphereeditorial.bandcamp.com/

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Experts Restore Largest Known Early World Map, Complete With Unicorns, Lizard People, And Mermen

The hand-drawn map was created 430 years ago by Urbano Monte. Centuries later, collector David Rumsey and his nephew have painstakingly scanned and digitally stitched together all 60 pages previously bound in an atlas, completing the map for the first time as it was originally intended.

At 10 foot square, this map or planisphere is the largest known early map of the world. It was hand drawn by Monte in Milan, Italy, and only one other manuscript copy exists.

A giant bird carries away an elephant in one portion of the map. Although as the scale of the illustrations are not consistent, it could be a normal-sized bird carrying away a tiny elephant. David Rumsey. 

A unicorn, several devils, and a lizard man roam across the land in this colorful depiction of Siberia. David Rumsey. The whole of the map can be viewed on David Rumsey's blog, as well as a video of the map projected onto a globe using Google Earth.