![]() The corresponding features on the ancient and modern The topography and geology of the Wadi Hammamat areaĪre shown in Figure 9. The map, but by comparison with the actual distances in Wadi Hamamat it isĮvident that the scale varies between 50 and 100 m for each 1 cm on the map. West on the right side and east to the left. The top is oriented toward the south and the source of the Nile River with (‘Valley of Many Baths’) in the central part of Egypt’s Eastern Desert ( Figureġ). This map shows a 15 km stretch of Wadi Hammamat There are a few older topographic maps from outside Egypt, they are all quiteĬrude and rather abstract in comparison to the relatively modern-looking mapĭrawn on the Turin papyrus. ![]() One of the earliest maps in the world with real geographic content. ![]() TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGIC CONTENT OF THE MAPīeing the only topographic map to survive from ancient Egypt and also for being These ‘pieces of the puzzle’ will be added to create a more complete map. Of its reconstruction (and are also missing from Figures 3-8) and eventually The Egyptian Museum has many small map fragments that it left out The map is not truncated here,īut drawings of an unknown number of stone blocks and the accompanying textsĪre missing. An unknown amount of the papyrus has been lost at its right edge and soįragments K and N-P cannot be correctly placed. Rightmost portion in Figure 3, which formed the outer abraded surface of the Subsequently handled, and this explains the especially poor preservation of the The map was rolled up when discovered and Photo-mosaics derived from digital scans of photographs taken of the papyrus. Spacing between the breaks within them should match for those fragments thatĪre vertically juxtaposed and (3) the topography and geology of the area shown The fiber patterns in the papyrus paper (2) the width of the fragments and the The map side, the texts and drawings on the map’s backside ( Figure 7 This new reconstruction is consistent with the requirements that: (1) theĪdjoining fragments should correlate closely in terms of the features drawn on Of gaps between many of the fragments (which shortens the map to about 210 cm). The principal changes are the transposition of mapįragments H-J and E, the placement of L at the bottom of E, and the narrowing A new arrangement of the map fragments has been proposed and this isįigure 6. Museum, which dates to the early 1900’s, is incorrect in several of itsĭetails. The current reconstruction of the map in the Egyptian Most of these fragments were eventually recombined to formĪ single map about 280 cm long by 41 cm wide ( Figure 2). Parts of three separate papyri that were designated as ‘Papyrus or P. The many map fragments were originally considered In 1824, this kingĮstablished the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the kingdom’s capital, and here the Northern Italian Kingdom of Sardenia and Piedmont. SoonĪfter it was found, the map was sold to king Charles Felix, ruler of the ![]() Kingdom (1539-1075 BC) in the nearby Valley of Kings and Valley of Queens. Responsible for excavating and decorating the royal tombs of the Egyptian New Of Luxor (ancient Thebes) in Egypt ( Figure 1). Private tomb in the ancient village of Deir el-Medina, near the modern-day city Scroll of papyrus paper was discovered between 18 by agents ofīernardino Drovetti, the French Consul General in Egypt.
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